Whenever a specific genre story is published and becomes really popular, you see another dozen similar titles pop up, like pimples after a chocolate binge. The pimple analogy can be taken a step further, since these copycat stories are generally a … Continue reading →
Ice fishing, I’ve recently discovered, is a lot like writing: You spend a good deal of time standing around doing nothing, waiting for something to come to you, and then scramble madly for thirteen seconds when something bites. This, and … Continue reading →
Like I said in my previous blog post, “Reach out and Touch Someone”, I believe that the moment of feeling – that connection between writer and reader – is all important. But, that feeling cannot happen if we don’t have … Continue reading →
Sometimes, if we are lucky, the work of a writer – a storyteller – touches us, and I don’t mean like that creepy guy at the bus stop who smells like liquor at 8 o’clock in the morning. If we, … Continue reading →
I hate New Years Resolutions, and let me tell you why. Resolutions, as they are popularly conceived, are banal generalities with no real substance behind them. They are hastily uttered to friends over a glass of something that warms the … Continue reading →
Life has not been easy lately. While some people are likely going through struggles that make my life seem like a cake walk, the burdens I carry seem no less heavy to me. And some days, the weight of them pulls me down, … Continue reading →
What should I do, I wonder, when the words desert me? When the stories don’t bounce around the inside of my skull anymore? When the desire to tell stories is gone, and there is nothing good left in its place. … Continue reading →
I’ve recently finished the first draft of the sequel to my novel, “The Watch,” and I’ve begun that first, all important, substantive edit. As I go through my own work, the phrases that are repeated in my head are “What … Continue reading →
I have returned from the Surrey International Writer’s Conference, but I’m relatively certain I left my brain under one of the presentation tables somewhere. As always, the conference was awesome. In the classes taught by the fantastic speakers I learned … Continue reading →
I, like everyone else, am many things. I have a bunch of different hats, titles I bear, and they change depending on where I am standing and who is looking at me at any given time. My kid calls me … Continue reading →