[feature_box style=”7″ only_advanced=”There%20are%20no%20title%20options%20for%20the%20choosen%20style” alignment=”center”] This is a new part of my blog — I’m calling it Productivity for Writers. Each post will be geared for writers, rather than readers, and focus on how we writers can write more and better by improving both the quantity and quality of our productivity. Read more…
Now that Paradise is complete and published (yay!), I’m ready to get back to Anika takes the long way home. I should’ve finished it MONTHS ago, seriously! Months. But better late than never, right? Anyway, while I wrote Anika, I was living in a fairly noisy place in Washington, DC. As Read more…
Hello, friends. How have you been? …Pretty good?… I’m glad! Oh — how have *I* been?? Well, funny you should ask, actually, because there’s a LOT going on in my life right now. While I suppose we are all busy all the time these days, last Sunday, I completed a Read more…
Well, guys, I did it — the reason you didn’t hear from me last Wednesday is that I was hard at work finishing Paradise. (Click here if you missed the long excerpt I posted.) The good news is, it’s done and it’s off to its beta readers. With a little Read more…
You can feel free to chastise me some more if you want, because yet another week has gone by without me making much progress on Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain. But I *did* make a lot of progress — as in, I am almost done with Read more…
Oh, friends. You should chastise me. You really should. I was on top of things for a while there, getting back into a good routine of writing my thousand-word minimum every day, and then… I fell off the wagon. There’s something I need to explain to you about writing, and Read more…
Hi folks! I am happy to include for you below an excerpt from AJ Adaire’s new novel, Don’t Forget. Here’s the description: In 1986, Jamie Parker falls in love. What could be bad about that? Nothing except that the object of her affection is Val DiLeona, friend and fellow administrator Read more…
I’m working hard to finish the first draft of Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain this month, and with a week to go, I have just over 10,000 words that I need to write. It sounds like a lot, but in reality, those words will go by Read more…
March 8. It’s been on my mind. March 8 was the day I found out I’d be moving to DC for work. Phewwwwww has my life changed a lot since then. November 8, 2016, was a day that changed the whole world, not just my own. And on January 8 Read more…
Hello everybody. I’m a bad girl. I’ve fallen behind on my writing schedule *and* my blogging schedule. Last week, I failed to post anything from my work in progress. But I’m trying to recapture some writing momentum, starting this week. That means I’m back in a writing groove again and Read more…