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Psychoanalyzing fictional characters
Clinical psychologist Suzanne Conboy-Hill and I have been virtual friends for a year and a half. Recently she read my novel The Brevity of Roses. I was a little apprehensive when she tweeted that she...
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Please follow me!
Today, I’m being interviewed by the fabulous Christi Craig. In answer to her probing questions, I babbled on about the Eye of God, ants, skeletal versions, disembodied voices, and then I ended with an...
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If life hands you a lemon … just whine on your blog!
In the midst of writing a thoughtful post pondering why we write fiction, I answered my own question, rendering the post moot. So now, I’m writing a ten-minute free-write glimpse into my mind and...
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Should I have turned up the heat in my novel?
Recently, I had a discussion with a hairstylist who read my novel, The Brevity of Roses, and recommended it to many of his clients. His opinion, shared by some of his clients, is that I should have...
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Ray Bradbury wrote this just for me!
If you’re a writer, I’m sure you’ve heard the terms plotter and pantser. For the non-writers: those terms refer to opposites in how much a writer prepares before he begins a work. Pantser comes from an...
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Do you know the LibraryThing?
I’d read reference to LibraryThing several times before I finally checked it out. I had imagined it as a hangout for professional librarians, but it’s actually a place to catalogue your library and...
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Book sales … get real!
Let’s be honest about expectations. Every debut author dreams their book will be the one the publishing fairy touches with her magic wand. Their book will “go viral” in digital speak, and suddenly the...
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Can you explain why book reviewers have this prejudice?
First off, I want to say how much I appreciate every single person who’s taken the time to read The Brevity of Roses. And those who went the extra mile by rating or reviewing it, get a second gold star...
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When your writing is like chocolate …
That post title is a bit of a cheat because I’m not a huge fan of chocolate. I know. It’s hard to believe a woman said that—and a writer even! But if the title had read “When your writing is like...
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No ebook giveaway, no new blog, but I do have rudeness!
I think this has to be the weirdest post I’ve ever published. I wrote this post a few days ago, but have had to edit it twice since then because two of the things it announced became invalid. For one,...
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