Questions for a New Year

Questions for a New Year

I can’t believe it, it’s a new year and I’m already falling down on the job! I just discovered that I never posted the post I wrote for last week! Well, it just means that this week you get two posts! So sorry about that! Also, pop down to the bottom...
Goals, Hopes, and Dreams 2019

Goals, Hopes, and Dreams 2019

Every year at this time I pull out my list of Goals, Hopes, and Dreams from the previous year. I’ve been doing this now for the past three years and it’s always really interesting to see where I was at this time a year ago, what I was thinking and hoping for in the...
Blogging for Authors: Yes or No?

Blogging for Authors: Yes or No?

How many blogs do you read? What topics interest you? Do you only read blogs on writing craft? Book marketing? Self-publishing? Or do you enjoy reading about the writing process, or what an author is working on? Have you ever read an author’s blog that is meant for...
The End

The End

James Scott Bell, begins his book The Last Fifty Pages, with the quote by Mickey Spillane: “The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” I love that quote and it’s so very true. It’s also very true that endings are hard. Damned hard! We work to...
Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

Sometimes when you write you just get stuck. No matter how well you plot, no matter how well you think things out beforehand, sometimes things just come to a sputtering halt in your writing and you aren’t sure how to go on. When that happens, I always find that asking...
Are you an introvert–that’s okay!

Are you an introvert–that’s okay!

Are you an introvert? My guess would be that your answer would be yes. I think that the majority of writers are. It makes sense since writing is an independent job that very few people do with someone else. I’ve been looking into introversion recently after hearing a...