And So This Is Christmas…
It’s almost Christmas and I’ve been thinking a lot about Christmases past and how much emphasis I always seem to put on this one day to be the anchor for…
2018 Publishing Contest
A year ago, we launched our first-ever publishing contest. We received an overwhelming number of submissions and were very impressed with the quality of everyone’s writing. Our judges had a…
Birds of Brookside Manor: Reading Guide
How traumatic do you think Beverly’s situation really is—losing her husband, being left with a mountain of debt, having to move to a new place? How do you think you…
Christmas Cards
I’m mailing out my Christmas cards today. That means I spent hours last night, painstakingly choosing the perfect card from the five different styles I purchased so each and every…
Christmas Shopping (Or, Why I’m Being Selfish This Year)
It’s Christmas shopping time, for normal people, at least. And the more I see those “Buy your wife a car” or “Your kids NEED this toy” commercials on TV, the…
The End of NaNoWriMo
Every year, by the end of November, I find myself sitting on a mountain of words—more than 50,000 of them, thanks to the magic of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).…
Another Thanksgiving, Another Memory
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Maybe I’m getting old, maybe I’m just feeling sappy and nostalgic, or maybe I just have some free time on my hands because I don’t have to…
Downtime (Or, When Not to Fight the Laziness)
Some days? I just get lazy. Take last Tuesday, for example. I woke up at my usual time, around 4:00 a.m. (although I should say that the phrase “waking up”…
Making Art (Or, How NaNoWriMo Is Going So Far)
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m deep in the midst of National Novel Writing Month, working hard to crank out 50,000 words between November 1 and November 30. I’m well on…
Meet Kevin Cooper of Hornpin Media in Laguna Beach
Today we’d like to introduce you to Kevin Cooper. Kevin, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so…
Feeling Like a Writer, or: My Journey to Little House on the Prairie
It’s Election Day and while everybody else is ranting about politics and violence and the terrible state of affairs here in America, I thought I’d take a step back and…
My Book Launch
My novel is being published today, and I honestly don’t know how I feel about that. It’s not my first book. I actually counted all the books I’ve ever written…
NaNoWriMo, Here I Come!
I may have mentioned before that I’m doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this year. In case you’re one of the few readers/writers left out there who hasn’t heard of…
Where Has All the Talent Gone?
For a much as I read, you’d think the words would—I don’t know—TOUCH me more often than they do. It’s the end of October and my Goodreads Reading Challenge counter…
Words Words Words
My head is spinning. It’s all words, words, words these days. I know that’s probably true for any writer, but I’m an editor, too, so sometimes it’s hard to figure…