Catching Up

Hello, all! It’s been awhile since I posted here, and I feel a little guilty about that. Not a lot, though. You see, since I’ve been here last I have: Driven 1800 miles and flown 1550 miles for book events Given 11 large group presentations Conducted 3 writing...

The Year in Numbers

One of my favorite recent tweets … 2016 — Good-bye and good riddance. Although it hasn’t been a bad year for me personally. Granted, it started off kind of rough, but if you discount the world and national news, it wasn’t all bad. Here’s...

The Scribbling Notebook

I’ve been spending a lot of time with my scribbling notebook this month. This is the place where I work out plot problems. Some people use white boards, some use index cards or Scrivener. For me, working it out visually and long hand is the way to go. I hang on to my...

Backing Up

via GIPHY Earlier this week, I wrote a great scene in my WIP. One of my main characters witnessed someone who lived in her apartment building pass through a solid wall after revealing herself to be not human. I was thrilled with the way it came together. Then I went...

Multi-Dimensional Vocabulary

I first encountered the terms ana and kata when reading William Sleator’s book The Boy Who Reversed Himself. (By the way, if you’re a YA science fiction/horror fan and you’ve never read anything by William Sleator, you should remedy that immediately.) Ana and kata are...