I live with my husband near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I’ve adopted his family as my own and manage to have (for the most part) avoided being the evil step-mother. Not so hard, since his kids are grown with families of their own. Through the pandemic, I started writing again. It had always been my …
Read MoreCreating An Identity
As I get ready to publish for the first time in almost a decade, I realize much has changed. All of the popular novelists do newsletters and blogs and interact on social media. These were new, unexplored and wild frontiers last time I tried to do this… and I do want to be one of …
Read MoreWhere do stories come from?
On a writers’ forum, someone posed the question. “Where do your story ideas come from?” For me, it’s largely environmental. I pull characters and situations/plots from real life. I may hear a snippet of conversation while waiting in line for a cup of coffee, or I see someone and wind a story around them. Example: …
Read MoreFictional Universe
As a reader, I love reading stories from the same universe. It’s like unexpectedly bumping into an old friend. I am the worst at remembering things like author’s names and book titles. I’m the same with songs. I can’t tell you the band or album’s name but I can hum you the tune and sing …
Read MoreLike A Snapped Elastic
Ever played with a sling shot or even just stretched an elastic too far and then watched it overshoot your hand when it’s released. Flinging whatever was bound by the catapult to the four winds That, dear friends, is what my brain is like these days. Life got in the way and I stopped writing …
Read MoreBook Lengths
I have to admit, I love the new book lengths which have emerged with the advent of e-books. With print books, romances needed to be around the 200 page mark to be published. Shorter stories weren’t profitable to print. As a writer, 75-100 pages seems to be my sweet spot. These novels are long enough …
Read MoreAnd they’re off
They’re in an email streaking across the interwebs, to the beta readers. The rush of excitement when I hit send on the email containing the final book in this series was so satisfying. All six novels are now even closer to burning up the pages of your reading device of choice. These are stories …
Read MoreWelcome to my new adventure!
Life happens when you’re busy making other plans. Ain’t that the truth. At 55, I thought I had my life all together and then bam – Covid played havoc with almost every aspect of my existence. In retaliation, I bumped my retirement plans up a few years, took advantage of the forced isolation and started …
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