What Are Your Plans for the Next Two Weeks?
Over the next couple of weeks, starting on August 10, I'll be teaching a planning course at Savvy Authors. If you've been following me for a while you'll know that planning is not something that came naturally to me, that I had to decide to do it. But once I'd made...
Aeon Timeline: Keeping Track of Time in a Series
Recently, I realized I needed a series bible for all my books that involve Harp Security. I'm not sure how many details other authors can cram into their brains without bits and pieces getting confused, but I found that after three books, things were starting to get...
Fantasy and Expectation: A Ramble
Warning: TL;DR post filled with questions without answers ahead. Romancelandia is fond of self-examination and since I come from an academic background, I often find discussions of what books are or are not capable of fascinating. When Fifty Shades came out, and to a...
Goody’s Goodies and Other Goodies!
The new Goody's Goodies book is here! Gaming the System has gotten some pretty good reviews at Goodreads already. You've probably heard me natter on about my punk-goth sex toy saleswoman heroine before if you follow me on social media, and I am so happy you're finally...
Cattle. And Bananas. And Flowers.
My husband and I have a timeshare and a few years back we didn't use our week. They notified us that we were going to lose the week if we didn't use it before August, so we went on the timeshare site and looked for places. We decided to go to Guadeloupe because it's a...
Not My Thoughts, but Thoughts I Share
Undoubtedly, the most famous section of John Donne's Meditation XVII is the following: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory...
Flowers and Rocks and Iguanas, Oh, My! More Pictures Added.
A few pictures from my vacation and the day I got back. The peonies and hydrangea are in my yard, but the other flowers and the iguanas are from St. Martin. I have no idea what they are. I love the purple and white star-shaped ones with the succulent-looking leaves....
An Open Letter to John Sandford from Leigh Neely
This is part of a series of fan letters I am hosting in the hope of introducing some of you to authors other readers are passionate about! If you have a favorite author (living or dead) you'd like to write to or about, please let me know. Dear John, Though your fans...
Possibly a New Story?
This afternoon, I sat down to start working on a short story I owe my friend Tommy for a charity anthology. I have no idea what it's going to be about, really, but most of my short works are heavily mood-influenced, and I don't think this will be any different. This...
Friendship in the Digital Age
Recently, I was talking to a woman I met several years ago at RWA. I don't remember who introduced us or how we became friends, but even though we rarely see each other, even though on the surface we have little enough in common beyond being writers, we follow each...