The Daily Post had a fun and mind-stretching challenge this week: write something in a mix of genre and style that would normally never go together, e.g., Sci Fi/ Fantasy as an Open Letter; Historical Fiction as a Rant. Why not? Gets me outside my comfort zone and might prove amusing–hopefully for others as well as […]

When planning just isn't your cup of proverbial tea.

A post about blogging

Dearest Readers, those who have seen my previous post about the evolution of the novel, know that I was an English Lit. major in college. But my love of books started much earlier, with my mother reading aloud to my brother and me at night, or when we took the seven hour drive to visit […]

I loved the feedback I got from my readers on the first book cover my mother and I designed and created. Now I’ve got the cover for book 2 in the Bleaken Series”finished”. I put that in quotes, because once again I’m looking for constructive feedback from y’all (no, I’m not from the south, but […]

I was reading Ryan Lanz’s recent post (you should check him out–good stuff there) and it got me thinking; thinking more than a simple comment on his blog could contain. So I’m going to explore, dear readers, the notion that characters can take control of a story, from a different perspective than Ryan’s original post. […]

A post for the Daily Post’s Weekly Writing Challenge. Never used a writing prompt before–it was harder than writing just what comes into my fevered brain normally. But a good exercise I think. Readers who are writers, you might give the Weekly Challenge a try. Sam didn’t notice her grandmother’s vase was missing from the […]

O.K., I indulged in one more fantasy of Smelly Lady (sparked by Tara Sparling’s post). This will be the last one…I think. *** Smoothing down her silver hair, Mrs. Vanderhorse shuffled down the isle, steadying herself on the rail overhead as the bus jolted into gear and leapt back into traffic. She smiled at a […]