Desperate for content, I’m writing a “free read” for my website. I’d originally envisioned a short story of 9k-12k words. And, knowing me, I’d figured it would come in just south of 15K. Today I hit 14,900 and I still have a chapter (or two) to go. I’ve officially upgraded…
The weekend before last, I was working on my tan. Now, I’m staring out at rain. Rain! In September! Usually things are on fire right about now. I can’t complain, though. We need the rain. But I can look back on…the way we were. Actually, I’m just looking for an…
I love being a California kid. Granted, the waters pictured are the pristine currents of Malibu, and not the seedy shores of Venice where, as a child, I whiled away many an afternoon, sun-browned and bored off my gourd asking “Please can we go home now?” In the summer, when…
Like the movie (or the Broadway musical) taught us, everybody loves a muse. And if everybody loves a muse, how does everybody feel about five muses? Pretty damn good (love is a geometric progression, yaknow?). So check this out: five scorching hot writers (including my partners in crime for Samhain…
It had to happen sooner or later–my darling hubby, who is both an electronics geek and a frugal buyer, finally found an HDTV that met his exacting tech standards and skinflint budgeting requirements. I was happy for him, but I didn’t think having a brand new 52″ HDTV would change…
Whew! My new and improved web page has arrived. I spent my free time today making graphics and slapping together pages. All in all, I think it ain’t bad for a day’s work. I went with a film noir / pulp novel theme, because that’s what I’m interested in, lately….
My editor (God, that’s so fun to write!) wrote today with a bazillion attachments and groups and such, including instructions on how to write my Samhain Publishing author bio (squee!). No surprises there, but I listed my website, which, currently, is, well, just an address with this picture. Like it?…
I’ve been thinking about accents. Namely, how to write characters that have them. Writers usually indicate a character’s accent in the following ways. Phonetic ApproximationWhen authors reproduce the sound of accented words, which leads to French characters saying things like, zee instead of “the” and Scottish characters mispronouncing every word…
