Let me preface this review by explaining something about myself: I am a dork. I am a dork, and I like silly, dorky movies and books. Especially silly, dorky romcom teen stuff. I don’t know why. I mean, I’m almost forty. But I love Say Anything and Sixteen Candles and Read more…
Hey folks. A slightly different WIP Wednesday this week: Five things you should know about the book I’m working on. 1) The title is winding and long-winded, and so is the story. Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain is the longest, strangest title for a book I’ve Read more…
I live only a few miles from Comet Ping Pong, the DC pizza place where a man with an assault rifle walked in to “self-investigate” a fake story about a child sex trafficking operation taking place in the restaurant’s “underground tunnels.” I’ve never read the original fake news stories purporting Read more…
I wouldn’t really say that I get writer’s block. I fully believe in Stephen King’s quote about how “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” I also believe that the best cure for not knowing what to write is to Read more…
I admit it. I’ve been on a real tear lately. Here’s what I’ve done in the past 30 days: I published To Have Loved & Lost I joined about fifty million Facebook lesbian book / author groups I started a mailing list I’ve written 22,000 words of a follow-up novel Read more…
I read this article online today that kicked off a storm of raging guilt. To summarize: So basically, you are taking these characters and putting them into a new world that the writer created, with new circumstances and settings. Now this is where it gets tricky. How alternate can a universe Read more…
Hi guys. I got a lot of writing done over the Thanksgiving holiday. I thought you might enjoy a snippet of my work in progress. (PS, I plan on posting a work in progress snippet every Wednesday. That’s the goal, anyway.) Here it is, from Anika takes the long way Read more…
Well, I’m afraid I did it again. My night owl tendencies got the better of me and I stayed up until 3:30am. Don’t ask me how I’m functioning today; I don’t know the answer. What was I doing until the wee hours of the night (or morning)? Watching Fingersmith, an Read more…
(Or: I’m kind of tired of traditional coming out storylines) It’s Thanksgiving weekend, y’all. You know what that means? TV and movies. Lots and lots and lots of them. Along with some novel reading and some novel writing. I just watched what I would characterize as a good, maybe even Read more…
This is a strange experience. I just spent a couple hours creating a cover and a title (right) for a book I haven’t written a single word for. I don’t have character ideas, backstory, anything, just a vague idea. Here it is. You can tell me: (1) What do you Read more…