Jul 7, 2015 | The Writing Life
Last month, two amazing women nominated me for two different blogging awards. I’m sorry to say I’m just getting around to my part of the deal now. Kellie from Princess & The Yard Ape kindly chose me for the Liebster Award, which celebrates blogs...
Jul 1, 2015 | The Writing Life
Today is the five-year anniversary of my little writing group. This is quite the milestone, because before the Sparkling Werewolves (our group is nothing if not sarcastic) I was quite adamant that writing groups didn’t work. After everything I had been through,...
Jun 2, 2015 | The Writing Life
This industry isn’t for the faint of heart. At least, not if you want to get published. You have to withstand many things in order to succeed: lackadaisical muses, evil reviewers, notoriously difficult gatekeepers, faulty hard drives, killer competition,...
May 25, 2015 | Bloody Book Club, The Writing Life
Today I’m participating in The Faux Fountain Pen’s Muse Party Blogfest. You’re all invited to bring your muse or one of your characters to the party. Since I don’t have a muse (unless you count Stephen King), I decided to bring Edgar, the...
May 6, 2015 | The Writing Life
I love a challenge. Run a 5K race? Sure! Fight in the ring? Yeah, let’s do it! Blog 26 times in a month? Bring it on! Write 50,000 words in a month? Why not? Blog 26 times and write 70,000 words for Camp NaNoWriMo in the same month? Of course!...
May 5, 2015 | The Life Less Ordinary, The Writing Life
The title of this post is a bit of a misnomer, I’ll admit. I can’t tell you how all writers feel. I can just tell you how I do. Today is the day my very first published book will be released. I now have things that I’ve dreamed of having since I was...
