Category: General

  • I quack me up: Two-fer

    Two excerpts from the third Sunshine Line book:

  • I Quack Me Up 2

    As I mentioned in the last post, I am editing my cancer blog thingy. (I are good with words.) I came across this and giggled, so I hope you will too: They got me in the OR and onto the operating table and gave me the nighty-night juice in the IV and then all of…

  • You Think Editing Is Hard?

    Try not editing.

  • Where’s My Magic Button?

    I write fantasy, right? Well, maybe you didn’t know that. But I do. So why can’t I come up with some magic that takes a finished novel and turns it into a book someone can buy? I just want to write the story. I can do that. All this publishing business isn’t nearly as much…

  • A special brand of crazy?

    I know, from talking to other writers, that I’m not the only one who experiences this. Here’s the deal: I think of my characters as having a separate identity from me. They aren’t just my creations, they have a will of their own. I know it sounds crazy, but I don’t think I’ve developed schizophrenia…

  • To blog or not to blog

    I resisted the idea of doing a blog for a long long time. For one thing, everybody was doing it. A few years back, it seemed like almost everybody on the internet had one. Some were highly successful, but most were read by few or none. Send your mind back in time, back before Twitter.…