Newly Released: Bad Spelling

Last Friday the 14th — just one day removed from Friday the 13th — my friend Marva Dasef’s new book Bad Spelling released from Muse It Up Publishing. Bad Spelling (Book 1 of The Witches of Galdorheim) is a middle grade fantasy involving a klutzy...

Living Oxymorons

As a writer, observing human behavior comes with the job, and sometimes, if you look at your experiences as “research,” it makes aggravating encounters worthwhile.This past weekend, my husband and I bought some items for our mountain rental house in the Walmart at...

Blogs, Facebook, and Teenage Daughters

Some of you may notice I’ve given my blog a makeover. I liked the black slate with white text, but it gave me trouble every month with the First Impressions posts. It was hard to differentiate between the text being critiqued and the critique itself, and...

Playing a Tough Room

Today, I have a guest post from my brother-in-law, Larry O’Donnell about his newest paying gig. Do you all remember the scene in The Blues Brothers where they play Rawhide repeatedly in the dive country-western bar? Apparently, Larry’s played in places...

First Impressions #25

Our third and final First Impression for the month of October is a YA Urban Fantasy called KNIGHTS OF AVALON by Melissa Barlow.A fencing champion destined for the Olympics, a martial arts prodigy, an organizer for Habitat for Humanity. Someone was murdering the...