None of us lives in stasis. We change moment to moment, day to day. Writing does, too. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes not. When my firs...

Take it from someone who walked face first into stuck (that was really a kind of burnout I didn't know I had) and then flailed there for...

 What I wished I'd known before my books were published: Nothing .  Not a damned thing. I'm glad I didn't know what a weird and ...

This is my writing view today. Beautiful, pine covered hills, blue sky, and a hand-made pine table. Which is definitely not in line with th...

Happy Friday the 13th. Watch out for weirdos bearing knives. And chainsaws. And . . . Listen. I haven't been to a conference in a very l...

Writing is hard. If you’ve tried it, are doing it, or have done it, you already know that. But we’re not talking directly about that this w...

  This handsome dude is looking for his forever human and home. And this totally has something to do with our topic this week. You see. I wr...

Photo by Stefan Steinbauer on Unsplash I adore my pen name and the identity I have created. Truth be told, I like my pen name way more than...

A week ago I snickered to myself about how I didn't know how to write about what it's like not having a day job because I still had ...

Happy Sunday all! This week's topic at the SFF Seven is Preconditions: What must be true before you can sit down to write? I'm a per...

  Is there anything worse than seeing that dreaded one star review appear below your book? Or get that dreaded “No” in the mail?  For author...

You want to know how I handle rejections, critical reviews, and other opinions? The facial expression of this photo of me in Ireland (at a 1...

There’s a tweet circling on the Internet that reads: Going as Former Gifted Child for Halloween and the whole costume is just gonna be peop...

I didn’t necessarily want to be a writer. Certainly no one ever suggested it. The first person to mention it was a high school biology teach...

 If I remember rightly, this topic might have been my suggestion, and I think I suggested it because at the time I imagined it would be easy...

This photo is 100% representative of the past two years of writing for me. The picture is from July 2021. I'd just face-planted on a dow...

Writer. Fashion. Isn't that an oxymoron? I mean, at conferences maybe some of us could be viewed as semi-fashionable. I am not among tha...

It occurs to me that I come here to the blog and say, "I don't want to be THAT person." and then I go right on ahead and make ...

These three books are on sale right now. THE MARK OF THE TALA , the book that started it all, first in The Twelve Kingdoms series . Also T...

The moon rises over the mesa at Ghost Ranch where Georgia O'Keeffe had her summer home. We went on a sunset horseback ride to see he...