Eight years ago today, I brought my kitty Kiera home from a no-kill cat shelter. They guestamated she was about one-and-a-half years old at that point. They’d given her the name Little Miss. She’d been abandoned in an apartment by the people who had owned her before me. It took over a year for her […]
Next month, I’ll be participating in SFWA’s Pacific Northwest Reading Series! And no, I have no idea what I’ll be reading. Possibly from the newest novel, “When the Moon Over Kualani Mountain Rises.” Or maybe a short story, written for the event. We’ll see. On Tuesday, April 29 in the Seattle area, we’ll have Nebula-
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I blog about inspiration both here on my blog and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or over there! I spent the last week in New Orleans. Tuesday was Mardi Gras. It was cold and rainy and I had the most fantastic time. In the morning, my friend and I
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I sold two short stories to the Fiction River anthology series! One to Past Crime and one to Pulse Pounders! More details to follow later when I can brain again.
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I blog about inspiration both here on my blog and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or there. I’ve spent the last week on the Oregon Coast, at a writing workshop. It’s actually been more business than craft, as I’ve been attending the anthology workshop. After listening to six different
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This week’s inspiration is a bit different. Okay, so most of these posts are a bit different. This one s a little bit more so. I’ve been writing full time now for a few weeks. And by writing, I mean standing (or sitting) at my keyboard for most of the day making stuff up and
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One of the advantages that a writer like J. D. Horn and The Line has while writing about Georgia and Savannah is that he was born in rural Tennessee. I am a mid-western girl, I wasn’t raised in rural Kentucky. There are things I can do to overcome this, however, and in general, to write
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The Popcorn Thief is now available! The blurb: Franklin loves popcorn. He used to love his mama more. Then she died, but didn’t pass on, and now haunts him like all the other ghosts. Only popcorn brings him solace. Every year, Franklin competes against Karl for the Kentucky State Fair blue ribbon prize for the
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Since I’m on sabbatical for the day job, I’ve been trying to learn how to write full time. I know that I’m a bit ahead of other writers just starting out, as I have worked at home for the day job for 13+ years. So the suddenly being home all the time hasn’t been a
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Subtitled: The art of traveling light For the New Zealand trip, I think I traveled the lightest I ever have. I was traveling in a developed country, and I wasn’t planning on camping, and those decisions helped lighten my pack–it isn’t that I’m a packing/traveling genius or something. But I still felt smug every time
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