Hot-lanta!

Tomorrow the husband and I are driving to Atlanta, Georgia for the RWA Nationals. There’s a workshop that I really want to attend in every single time slot, and in some cases, two. So this should be fun, educational, and exhausting. Thursday evening, I’ll...

Plain Women Need Not Apply

By now, you may have seen the video of Dustin Hoffman making the rounds on Facebook, wherein he gets teary-eyed because he had an epiphany when makeup artists couldn’t make him beautiful to play the role of Tootsie. If you haven’t, it’s here. You may...

A Hard Day’s Edit

I am buried in Marann edits. It’s left me with little energy for anything else, including this blog. For this, I apologize. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you can see daily progress updates. I really am here! I’m one of those authors who truly...

A Writer’s Work

It’s rather nice to have a clear set of goals. I spent the first month after I released Daughters dithering about what I was going to do next. Now, publishing contract in hand, I know exactly what I need to work on. I love it. I spent the first half of June...

When Books Collide

I was doing my darnedest to write a scene all day. I had it outlined; I knew what I wanted to do with it. But the dang thing was doing a “digging to China with a rusty spork” routine on me. So I gave up and let it go where it wanted to go. And dang if what...

Back to the Fall!

It’s time to really dig in and finish The Fall. I’ve had lots of ideas, while I was working on other things, for ways to complicate the plot, and I’ll have lots of time with little distraction over the next two weeks while the husband is away at an...