It’s just over a month till my workshop at the East Greenbush Library on June 4th. Here’s the description I sent for their newsletter: BLOCK BUSTING: HOW TO BREAK THROUGH THE BARRIERS THAT KEEP YOU FROM WRITING Writer’s block afflicts every author sooner or later. If you’ve ever found yourself paralyzed, staring at an empty… [Read More]
Wanted: Guest Bloggers!
Calling all writers—how would you like to be a guest blogger on this site? And how would you like to host me on yours? Beginning Friday, April lst, I plan to start featuring fellow authors on a weekly basis. This spring I’ve vowed to ramp up my online presence so as to spread the… [Read More]
Fear and habit: my biggest writing bugaboos
Monday, March 21 Block Busting: Blasting through the Barriers to Creativity. That’s the catchy title I came up with for a workshop I’ll be delivering at least twice in the coming months: once for the Hudson Valley Writers Guild in June, and once for the Capital Region chapter of the Romance Writers of America in… [Read More]
A lonely birthday marred by murder of my favorite soap opera character
It’s not often a man strikes up a conversation with me in a bar, but then it’s not often that I find myself alone at a bar in a strange town where I know no one.* New York City doesn’t count—I met my husband at a bar there over 40 years ago, Max’s Kansas City,… [Read More]
What, me hire an editor? No way!
Hallelujah! HOPE DAWNS ETERNAL is finally ready to publish, or almost. Yesterday I finished combining the prologue and 36 chapters into one gigantic document of 265 pages and 78,318 words – longer than I’d expected, but an ideal length for the first book of a trilogy. Or who knows, maybe it’ll become a longer series…. [Read More]
Hope Dawns Eternal nearing the Finish Line
How do you know when you’ve finally finished your novel? Especially when it’s the first in a series? I thought I’d completed Hope Dawns Eternal, my vampire soap opera thriller, a couple of months ago, but when my husband read it, he thought I needed a more dramatic ending that wrapped up more of the… [Read More]