How do you know if you’re meant to be a writer? It’s really a valid question. Lord knows I’ve asked of myself enough times. But really, how do you know? For me there have been points of clarity mixed with occasional thwacks upside the head to remind me. The first big point of clarity came [...]

I promised that I wasn’t fooling around!  Today I’d like to announce the two winners for my month long blog tour contest.  If you commented on one of the blogs I was at, like Vampire Wire, Patricia’s Vampire Notes, the Harlequin Paranormal Romance Blog, or Make Believe Mondays, you were entered to win. The two [...]

After one of the worst Winters in the Pacific Northwest since the 1860s, I’ve really been looking forward to Spring. You know I was just beginning to think that Spring was really here. Near my house there is a wetland area and every year I wait to hear the chorus of tree frogs start up. [...]

OK, really I should have said, what writers who want to get paid decide what to write. The truth is if you pick up pen and put it to paper or type on your keyboard and create a story or an article, you are in fact a writer. But here’s the thing: if you want [...]

For a writer nothing compares to actually seeing your book be released out into the wild. OK, perhaps that’s a little dramatic, it’s not like I’m raising tiger cubs here. But I am excited! Twice now I’ve come so close (those of you who still ask me when The Spellbound Bride is coming out, I’m [...]

I have a love/hate relationship with Valentine’s Day. How can you not love a holiday that is about love, celebrated by eating chocolate? But I hate what commercialism has done to it. My kids, in grade school mind you, feel pressured to BUY things for friends, their teachers, even their parents! WTH? Valentine’s Day is [...]

You would think that writers stick together. Um, yeah. Let me disabuse you of that notion right now. There are literary writers and there are genre writers. Kind of like there are Catholics and Southern Baptists. Both Christians, but totally different. Literary writers are given reviews, and taken seriously, usually producing work that transcends society [...]