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 [...]

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 in [...]

Normally I don’t talk about pr stuff on my author website. But something has crossed a huge line. And that something is RWA.
So pardon me as I put on my publicist’s hat for a moment and climb up on to the soapbox. Speaking from professional experience in corporate environments, it doesn’t matter what your company [...]

 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 [...]