Can You Still Buy Paper Maps?

by | Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorized

  I don’t think I’ve handled a paper map in years. Remember how we used to need them to drive places? Lately, I’m thinking I’d like to return to the low tech map option. This month, I’m driving to a lot of unfamiliar places for book...

Using a Placeholder Scene

by | Oct 13, 2014 | WIP, writing

  Last week I was clobbered by The Return of the Sinus Infection. Clearly one course of antibiotics didn’t do the trick, although it’s amazing how you can feel perfectly healthy one day and then knocked down with a hammer the next. Not a lot of...

So How Do You Like …

by | Oct 8, 2014 | book promotions, doctor who, goals, writing

  … being a full time author? I get this question a lot these days.  I think non-writers picture me clicky-clacking away at dozens of new books, sitting at a desk all day with coffee by my side. Fellow writers probably know better!  (One day last week I figured...

First Impressions: SQUATCH WATCH

by | Oct 6, 2014 | First Impressions

  Our final submission for October First Impressions is a MG humorous adventure from Michelle L. Brown titled SQUATCH WATCH: ***  If you’re going to be the first human to interview Bigfoot, you need bait.             But my bait had a sore throat. Rodney, the...

First Impressions: THE PET CONNECTION

by | Oct 3, 2014 | First Impressions

  Our next submission for October First Impressions is a humorous contemporary MG by Rebecca Anderson. Her working title (and she says she’s open to other suggestions) is THE PET CONNECTION: *** Badger Jacobs didn’t think he was an especially lucky person. So he...