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NaNoWriMo #Fail
I suppose there is a very, very slender chance that I will finish my book in the next two days. And it may even be something people would want to read. But I doubt it. So I’m going to throw in the...
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Voice Part III
I’ve been super-busy these last several days with my other work – you know, the non-writing job that distracts me from my true love. But I did promise to post books that I think are strong examples of...
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Voice Part IV
The stories I like best are the ones where I feel as though what’s not being told is far more important than what is. ‘The Secret History‘ by Donna Tartt is one such book. There is a subtlety about her...
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Voice Part V
If you grew up in the ’80s, a lot of this book will resonate. ‘Story of My Life’ is about a disaffected, privileged young woman who lives in NYC, and has everything she needs in a material sense, but a...
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Voice Part VI
‘Le Mariage‘ launched my phase of infatuation with Diane Johnson and her work about expats, a somewhat separatist culture with which I am very familiar. I still read snippets of this book and ‘Le...
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The Itch
On December 22nd, I was convinced I couldn’t write another word. Not. Another. Word. I had been polishing off some edits of ‘Secret’ and my brain felt like it was about to explode. I decided that there...
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Resolutions
res·o·lu·tion (r z -l sh n). n. 1. The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination. 2. A resolving to do something. 3. A course of action determined or decided … 2012 has been an incredible...
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Review of ‘Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever’
Books are like movies. There’s rarely ever a new plot out there. In fact, every single book ever written is probably a variation of one of five basic plots, in my opinion. So it takes some skill to...
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Paying it Forward . . . The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
I’d never heard of a “blog hop” before today, but here’s the deal: I was tagged by author, M.J. Kane, in her blog which answered 10 questions about “the next big thing” she’s working on, She’d been...
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Unbridled Romance
Some writers elevate the romance novel to a form that makes you eschew gritty reality in favor of something so much sweeter . . . Now I’m not your romantic type. Honest, I’m not. I still stifle the...
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The Writer’s Dilemma
When I was a kid, people used to call me shy. And for awhile, I believed them, because what did I know? I was a kid! But as I grew older, I realized that while shyness connoted fear, or trepidation...
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Jacinta Howard, Wine & More Writers
Not only is Jacinta Howard one of my top 3 favorite indie authors, she is definitely one of my top three favorite people that I’ve met through writing. And it also doesn’t hurt that she’s basically my...
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‘Behind the Pen’ is back!
I only started doing book signings and public appearances about three years ago. The first one I did was my own, ‘Wine with Writers’. After that, I tested the waters with a couple others, and once I...
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In Medias Res–A Guide to ‘FOUR: STORIES OF MARRIAGE’
in me·di·as res /in ˈmēdēəs ˈres,ˈmādēˌäs/ adverb into the middle of a narrative; without preamble. “having begun his story in medias res, he then interrupts it” into the midst of things. This one...
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