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But NaNo! Life Ate My Mojo

November. The dregs otherwise known as National Novel writing month. Last year I took the opportunity to write a novel fictionalizing my experiences at the women’s college, Peace, the administration of which a few months prior announced it would admit men The book, Saving Peace, was shortlisted for the Kindle Book Review‘s literary fiction prize. [...]

Wordless Wednesday: A Man and a Woman

This was the most tweeted photo on the evening of November 6th, election night 2012. Don’t you love when someone hugs you with their whole soul?

Inside the Writer’s Studio with Susan Buchanan

We’re back in the studio today with writer Susan Buchanan to get the scoop on her latest release. The Dating Game is her second novel, and published on 2nd Nov 2012. Sign of the Times, her first novel, was published in March 2012. She will shortly start work on her third novel, due for release Spring [...]

Wordless Wednesday: When the Tart Becomes the Treat

I don’t know about you, but Halloween confuses me. We tell children not to talk to strangers except for once a year when we take them door to door. I grew up in a conservative family so my brother had much more interesting costumes than I did. Now that I’m an adult, I’m still not [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Desert Reading in Snow Country

  Love Comes Later is about people finding love in the desert state of Qatar made it all the way into the hands of reader, reviewer, and bookworm extraordinaire, Kriss Morton, aka the Cabin Goddess, in snowy Alaska. She won the photo contest that was part of the Novel Publicity Whirlwind Tour for the novel. [...]

The Safety of Strangers

You probably grew up with the same warning that I did: “Stranger danger!” As children it’s important we can distinguish from those we know, who love us, and those we don’t know, who may wish to harm us. As an artist, however, now in my thirties, I feel the roles have reversed. The people who [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Get Caught Reading

  People say no one reads anymore… the photo contest part of the Love Comes Later Whirlwind Tour proves otherwise. I love seeing readers with my book. Nothing can make a writer happier.   Have you read a great book lately? What was it and why did you fall in love with it?   Related [...]

On November 7 We Go Back to Pretending

2008 was a traumatic year for me. During that election season the veneer of civility was ripped off American politics and society. Republicans and Democrats showcased our worst fears to the world. As a brown person in a black and white polarized political sphere, I wanted to run and hide. Conservatives were afraid that with [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Wurdle

Friend, fellow blogger, writer, and reviewer, Tony Riches, told me about Wurdle, a site that allows you create a text based picture. He made the one above from common words used from my blog. Text clouds are an inventive way of combining visual and literal elements. A little something for everyone!   Related articles Wordless [...]

When Your Choices Shame You

I was feeling a bit low, heading into the second trimester with our second baby and fighting off a bout of food poisoning. I crossed my fingers this wasn’t the amoeba going around a colleague told me about. If it was, I didn’t want to know and hoped it would soon leave. I dragged myself [...]