There are a lot of times as a writer where you shake your head and say, “Why me?” Like the time my publisher declared bankruptcy three weeks before my book was supposed to be on bookshelves, or the time I submitted several books to a publisher and received encouraging revision [...]

 Let’s face it. We all want something. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
But why is it that some people are this amazing bust out phenomenon and other people, are well, just plugging along?
I may not know everything, but what I have learned is this: becoming great is a marriage of many levels. It’s a marriage [...]

There are really so many misconceptions about writers, what they make, how they do what they do, that it’s laughable.
Not all writers parade around in bunny slippers, dashing off a book in a weekend between watching reruns of Supernatural. And writers usually don’t make an astounding amount of money. Not even those that hit the [...]

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 winners [...]

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 to [...]