5 Ways to Celebrate the Authors in your life

National Author Day Eve: 5 Ways to Celebrate the Authors in your Life Buy an author’s work: BUY, meaning don’t steal, beg, or borrow, and WORK, meaning books, magazine articles, poetry, or journals that have published essays. Promote an author’s events: attend a...

Your Writing Environment

Welcome to the third post in my new series about preparing for, and surviving, NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Join me in November to attempt this valiant feat yet again- check in with the writing community on our Facebook page. If you are going to undertake...

Why NaNoWriMo Works for Both Writers & Editors

Welcome to the second post in my new series about preparing for, and surviving, NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Join me in November to attempt this valiant feat yet again- check in with the writing community on our Facebook page. There are two kinds of...

How I Approach NaNoWriMo

Welcome to the first post in my new series about preparing for, and surviving, NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) NaNo works for me because … I am capricious. I can be good at discipline, but only until I get bored of it, or feel limited by it, then I toss it...

Getting in the Mood for Halloween

I’m not much of a Halloween person. But I DO love mysteries. And Halloween is sort of about Mystery…right? Join me and two of my fellow authors this weekend! We’ll be reading from our scary/creepy/suspenseful works on Saturday, October 8th, 1:30-3...