Me and My Volt

We have a third driver in the household now, and the need arose for a third car. (Not that the third car belongs to Gabbey. We all swap vehicles depending on the weather, purpose, destination, etc.) My husband selected a Chevy Volt – for which Pennsylvania was...

A Friendly Haunting?

As some of you may know, my family owns a condo on Jack Frost Mountain in the Poconos, which we rent out to vacationers as a little side business. We use the house ourselves a few times a year—enjoying a getaway and doing maintenance on the place, etc. Last weekend,...

Pacing

This is a bit of a cheat, since I’m recycling a recent post from Project Middle Grade Mayhem. But this was well received by readers, and although I wrote it specifically for MG writers, I believe it has relevance to writing for other audiences. I recently...

Eight Terrible Titles

Last month I was tagged by Marcy Hatch to play this game which has been bouncing around the blogosphere. The idea is to pick spots in your WIP (with your eyes closed) and from the randomly selected sentences find a new (terrible) title for your manuscript. I chose my...