As y’all may or may not know, I follow The Primal Blueprint diet/lifestyle. In practical terms, this means I eat only dead critter, veggies, fruit & berries, and dairy. I have a high fat, medium protein, low carb diet. This means I’m a fat-burner, not a sugar-burner, in terms of how my body gets its […]
This is actually much more than just the announcement of a short story being available. This is the announcement of the Uncollected Anthology Series! uncollected: not collected or gathered together oxymoron: a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings The Uncollected Anthology series is indeed an oxymoron. Sprung from the minds of
Dancing with Tong Yi Now Available! Read More »
Woo AND hoo! I’m re-releasing one of my favorite books through Book View Cafe. This gave me a chance to go through it with a fine toothed comb, find those few errors that still existed in the text, as well as to rebrand the entire series with new covers. The blurb: Adele—a beautiful fairy queen
The Clockwork Fairy Kingdom now available! Read More »
No, I’m not giving up being a professional writer. Or writing full time. I am having far too much fun, and I haven’t run all the way through my savings yet. (I have two years of income saved…If I’m careful.) When I started this venture, I created a project plan for how long it would
Three years ago today, I took possession of my beautiful house. I’ve never regretted it. I love this place. I continue to feel supported in this wonderful environment. I feel as though I can be more creative because I have such a great place in which I can be creative. I’m merely the steward of
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Gracie and the Whirligig is now available! Everyone up in the hills thinks Mama’s touched. And maybe she is. Or maybe she isn’t. But when a fire burns our still to the ground, I got no one to rely on but her. And that damned flying machine, that whirligig, that she probably stole. This is
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Next week, I start writing the next novel. (Yes, this is a full time job.) It’s War Among the Crocodiles, the conclusion of The Shadow Wars trilogy, that started with The Raven and the Dancing Tiger and continued in The Guardian Hound. This weekend, I’ll start looking at my notes for the series. Next week,
The last couple of weeks I’ve been going through both copy edits as well as first reader comments. Most of the comments are fabulous. I find myself nodding in agreement, or going, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Or just accepting and moving on. However, every once in a while, I run across something that
I’m in the middle of my second draft for Poisoned Pearls. It’s been going well. As expected, I’ve added a bunch of words, even in the sections where I wasn’t adding new scenes (of which I’ve already added two.) I like this novel a whole lot more now that I can step back and look
One of the things that I continue to work on for myself is my perception of myself as essentially a lazy being. On the one hand, I know I’m lazy. I spend an awful lot of time goofing off, reading blogs, playing games, etc. On the other hand, I’m also aware that I’m not actually