Category: Writing Process

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …