When it comes to grammar, I’m not quite as nit-picky as I am about spelling. Homonyms: it’s important to get those straight. Syntax is important because it can change the meaning of the sentence if the words are out of order. But I will end a sentence with a preposition. I will use “who” instead […]
Blog Archive
My posts are divided up into three categories, posts related to books (usually mine), posts about giveaways, contests, or special offers, and posts about my writing progress and the writing process in general. If you want to check out one topic in particular, you can select one of the "filed under" links or choose a narrower topic from one of the "tagged" links, located beneath each teaser below.
What’s In A Name? How the Name Affects Your Characters
One of the first things, and in my opinion, the funnest, you get to do when you start a new story is pick names for your characters. They can be goofy names or poetic names or boring names, depending on who the character is and what their personality is like. A lot of my characters […]
Did somebody say, “Redesign?”
Does the website look a little different? Well, it should. I just changed pretty much everything about it except the articles! Why the change? Originally, when I switched from Blogger to my self-hosted WordPress site, I wanted to keep the design similar enough that the very few people who read my blog then would not […]
How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Helped My Writing
Lots of people might scoff at the idea of “watching” a story instead of “reading” a story for inspiration, but for visual learners like me, it’s a great option. I love television and film just as much as I love reading. And these days, you have to admit, there are just as many bad television […]
Work in Progress: How Writing Can Take Over Your Life
From what I’ve experienced and what I hear from other writers, writing is not always a choice–sometimes it’s a compulsion. Sometimes, the muse doesn’t just descend–sometimes she comes down and throws a tantrum until you do what she says. For me, writing is addictive. (Hence the reason I have so many blogs! Running tally: 4 […]
Get A 21st Century Fairy Tale AND a Discount!
The wait is over! A 21st Century Fairy Tale is now available for purchase through Amazon and CreateSpace! It will take a few days for the full details of book to appear in Amazon, but you can buy it today on CreateSpace at my e-store! As a bonus, I’m giving a DISCOUNT, THIS WEEK ONLY on […]
Look for A 21st Century Fairy Tale (aka Descendant) Sept. 4
My new book, a fantasy/mystery novella, is coming out September 4, 2012! Originally, I had titled it Descendant, but after some further research, I realized that there were about 3 or 4 pages of search results with a similar title and I didn’t want my book to be hidden among all the others. So, I […]
Realistically Yours is Now Available for Kindle!
One of the things I like about Amazon is how easy they make things for independent publishers like me. Not only can an author use CreateSpace to publish a print version of their book, and have CreateSpace print and ship copies on demand, but they can use Kindle Direct Publishing to publish digital copies of […]
*UPDATE: Upcoming Release: Descendant
Because of my inability to leave it alone, I am way ahead of schedule on the new book. A 21st Century Fairy Tale (previously titled Descendant), my new fantasy novella (it’ll be about 120 pages or so, so I figure that’s about novella length), will be coming out soon. It may not be a full-length […]
Genre Versus Characters: The Writing Process
Writing for a genre versus writing your characters are different processes. They require different approaches and organization, and the characters themselves will not be the same if they were written into two stories with the same plot–one written with the genre approach and the other with the character (development) approach. A story based around the […]
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