Mexico, Magic & Motivation

Mexico, Magic & Motivation

I’m back from my Western Caribbean cruise and I feel refreshed, rejuvenated and inspired. It’s amazing how creatively stifling technology -and, in particular, social media- can be.  I thought I knew how weighed down I’d gotten, but apparently that was just the...

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days…

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days…

Summer break is at full swing at last, I only wish I could say the same about my current manuscript. I can't blame the sun, the sand or the siren's song of the ocean for distracting me from my work, but they are certainly enabling my current creative malaise. I've...

Riding the Storm Out

Riding the Storm Out

The summer is nearly upon us, Dear Reader, and I, for one, can't wait to bask in the warmth of a sun that seems to have been hiding for far too long. It’s a rebirth, of sorts, and one sorely needed when darkness has fallen on the writing community, its decay settling...

Guess What?

Guess What?

Come on, you know you were expecting it. This month is going to be a vicious grinder as I churn out words like McDonald's churns out burgers. Between writing two novels, planning two novellas and having a new character for a brand new series breathing down my neck,...

New Year, New Stuff… (2 months late…)

New Year, New Stuff… (2 months late…)

So much has happened in the last few months that I don't know where to begin. At the beginning, right? I lost my beloved dog, Booga, just before Thanksgiving and I'm still not recovered. He was a constant companion.. the man in my life when my husband was away and my...

A Voice from the Darkness

A Voice from the Darkness

Hello, dear readers! I know, I know... it's been forever. But after the harrowing ordeal of writing two novels in such a short time span, and then jumping right in to my first signing event, my brain was fried. The decompression time was much needed. I powered through...