A book-oriented email I get regularly features “The Writer’s Life”, interviews with authors which includes a Q&A. I think the standardized Q’s are interesting and for a lark decided to…Continue readingMy A’s to an interview Q’s
I was astonished and utterly delighted to discover that my nearly-20-year-old novel “The Secrets of Jin-Shei” still has wings – it has been picked as the read-along book by Matthew,…Continue readingA well-loved book
Moments n fiction and in life A life is made of moments. It is stitched together from the things you remember most vividly — the peaks and the valleys, the…Continue readingMoments
At warp speed When I wrote the novel “Spellspam“, the second in my Worldweavers series, I was sure that the playful term which I had invented to describe spam which…Continue readingInvented any words lately?
There are times my subconscious almost scares me. Waking into a new day, I linger for a moment on the shores of the dream sea before I come back to…Continue readingHardhat Zone: Novel in Progress
10 authorial confessions 1. There are times that I have sat and watched words which I am typing appear on the screen in front of my eyes… and not recognized…Continue readingThe Possessed Author
More than a decade after my most popular book, ‘The Secrets of Jin-shei’, was published, it keeps cropping up here and there – sometimes in a new form (an ebook…Continue readingWhen a Novel Came to Tea
In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but leavened…Continue readingHow to build a world
Excerpt from1st chapter of Random, Book 1 of The Were Chronicles In ‘The Were Chronicles’, shapeshifting Weres and normal humans live in an uneasy alliance. The Weres are officially tolerated…Continue readingRandom Werewolf
Photo by Hisu Lee at Unsplash.com In fiction and in life A life is made of moments. It is stitched together from the things you remember most vividly — the…Continue readingThe Moment