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A Great Week in Oregon!

I think I’m finally back up to speed. It’s hard, really, to spend 9 days surrounded by writers, talking about writing, living writing, talking business, being in that space—and then get tossed back into the other alternate reality where no one talks about writing and the only conversation I get is Mom, where is my [...]

Oregon Writers Anthology Workshop

Cabin at the Anchor. Hrm.

When I’m in Oregon, I feel like I’m home. I feel comfortable. I love this state. And I especially love the coast. There is no other place for me. It’s where I’m happiest. And it’s been that way since early 1999.

This week I’m attending a Writer’s Anthology Workshop [...]

Reading. It Does A Mind Good.

ICE! Though, this is a week old picture.

I’ve read a lot these past two weeks. Along with writing. A lot of writing. For a while there, nearly a year, I didn’t read for pleasure. In fact I barely read at all.

Clue one—this is not a good idea for a writer. You’ve got [...]

Ice Days

View from the front window.

Soooo…what does a writer mom do when the weather outside turns weird?

And I say weird because we just don’t get ice / snow days a lot in the south. And when we do, it not only throws the city into a tizzy, it also disrupts the working parent. [...]

I Need To Make Better Notes

Chi Baby taking a Siesta

No joke.

Getting back on the horse after a rough first month,I pulled up a project I’d been baring down on with excitement and eagerness—and stopped dead when I looked at where I left off. Hrm. I re-read the chapter before and still hrm.

I pulled out the notebook [...]

Interesting Weather Here…

Yep. Just goes to prove the south is not the place to be when it snows.

That’s supposed to be a birdbath…but the bath fell off from ice! See the mound to the left of it?

What gets me is the news and the weather channel kept saying “Snow’s a coming!”

Did those in [...]

New Beginnings

Morning Walk Feature:The lamppost in the park.

I posted back on the 10th that I’d been working on a production schedule. And I did. The only problem was—I didn’t follow it. Or I haven’t yet.

Directing a writing career includes everything, personal life and professional. One can’t exist without influencing the other, or that’s [...]

First Update for the New Year

Morning Walk Feature: Grass with water beads.

SERAPHIM IS NOW back on track after revising what was going to be the ending to the series and moving it into more books. I’m not going to put another physical number on the series for now. I just want to see where it goes. Her world’s [...]

Seraphim Update

When I first came up with the idea of theZoë Martinique Investigation Series, I saw it as 8 books with a very clear arc. And up until October of this year, I was on track with that arc. Until I started writing Mysterious Times, book one inThe Eldritch Files (TEF). 26K into that book, [...]

First Peek at Covers for Seraphim and the Original Grimoire: Shadows In Midnight

I know I usually show this in the Newsletter first. But, since the book’s running a bit behind I wanted to give readers a small look at the cover for Seraphim, as well as the new cover for the Original Grimoire, which has been retitled,SHADOWS IN MIDNIGHT.

Shadows will be released free to Newsletter [...]