Recently I Announced My Decision To Indie Publish Two Of My Novels. A little over a month ago, I shared my decision and why I came to this conclusion. You can read about it here: Writing Tip: Indie Publishing—When is it Right? I have to say I was pleasantly surprised...
In 2010 I won a Best Fiction Award and had three agents ask for my full manuscript. I was attending the SCWC (Southern California Writers Conference) and had submitted pages as an Advanced Read. One of those agents was based in New York and asked me to give him first...
Writers are a self-reliant lot. We have to be. We think, plan, craft and write in isolation. And even when we get guidance from an editor or read ‘n critique group it’s still our final decision, made in isolation, as how (or if) we will follow that advice. And writers...
I’ve written three complete novels— but ask me to write a short story or a poem and I freeze in fear. Even my letters to friends (when we used to all write letters) were so long people called them novels. There is a comfort level for me in having the time to spin out...
I recently read a blog post by Kristen Lamb It made me shout out OOHYA and do a fist pump. The Topic of Her Blog? Good Girls Don’t Become Best-Sellers—Channeling Your Inner “Bad Girl” to Reach Your Dreams. Among the many lessons in this post, she discusses how we can...
THE GOOD Yesterday was blog writing day. The day I pick a topic and do my first draft for my weekly blog post. I usually breeze right through this task and it’s fun creative writing time. THE BAD And yet, yesterday the hours ticked by…vague ideas came and...
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter.
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter. 
