At some point, home goes some place else.  It's not longer where we learned to ride a bike or had our first kiss.  "Home" becomes a new place with new traditions and feelings associated with it, and your previous home becomes just a place to visit. We do this when we move on from old … Continue reading If You Can’t Go Home, Where Is It?

Happy Labor Day, American friends!  Happy almost-Eid, Muslim friends!  I'm a day off, but in fairness it still feels like Sunday, so I'm counting it.  Things are very busy here.  I'm editing two books for other authors, reviewing cover designs for Sacrifice and damn near done with that interminable book.  I much preferred this "finish a … Continue reading A Day Off

It turns out book tense?  Gets people goin'!  I never realized that some English readers have chosen teams, and are staunch defenders of their tense! Most of the team is the Past Tensers.  It's sort of like when you played a team game in school, and one team got colored jerseys and the other team … Continue reading Tens(e)ion!

A serious post for probably the first time.  I wanna talk race.  Not in the clench up and prepare for impact kind of way though!  Race in literature.  Specifically, my series. In Feeding Frenzy I've mostly ignored it.  I think I clarify that the main characters are white, and the sorority girls are mostly white.  Other … Continue reading The Problem of Us and Them

I've been catching up on books lately.  Yada yada, an artist must be an observer but also have you read books?  Books are great.  They are sustenance to my little heart. But I wanna talk again about writing women, and specifically why we can't seem to get away from sexism. I get it for some sub-genres--urban … Continue reading What I’m Lookin’ For In A Woman

Hi all! We have a few lucky winners of the giveaways that ended last week, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! I have an extra copy of Feeding Frenzy and in honor of the Olympics, I think it'd be really fun to send it along and see how far it gets.  Basically, I'm going to give this book … Continue reading Book Relay!

Hi readers!  This post is by the incomparable Jessica Woodard.  She, like I, loves fairytale and myth and writes great stories on that topic with a romantic bent. Also, July 31 is the last day to enter for the giveaways on Amazon and Goodreads!  Get a piece of that. And enjoy this post! --- I … Continue reading GUEST POST: Deus Ex Bangeration

Midweek post! Is she sick? Hobbit? Is she hallucinating?? The answer is: PROBABLY NOT!! But it is my birthday this weekend, and I always loved Bilbo's birthday scene, where everyone comes and gets gifts from him.  I can't actually do that, to my great dismay, so you'll have to click a few buttons to see … Continue reading Hobbit-Style Birthday BOOK GIVEAWAY!

It goes like this: 1. Forming. 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing.  Even the stories of long relationships seem to go like that. Old friends meet.  Old friends argue about how they live their lives. Old friends help defend order in a town.  Old friends shoot up the OK Corral. Superheroes get picked up from their … Continue reading The Three Scariest Words (Not Those Three!)

The giveaways at Goodreads and Amazon are still underway until Harry Potter's birthday!  What a great guy. Sacrifice is rolling right along, but it's making me work for it.  So much foreshadowing from book one, such a fool I am!  What was I thinking!  But it's gonna be great.  I'm about three chapters from being … Continue reading Books Fo’ Free & A Quick Update