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the senseless challenge, week 5: touch (Raine)
For my final piece in the Senseless Challenge, week 5, I’m sharing the very first chapter of my upcoming Nine Nights with the Studly Buddha, in its entirety. Which is possible because it’s a very short...
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how to keep slugs off your strawberries
I will bestow upon you the knowledge of the most genius thing the internet has ever taught me: how to keep slugs off your strawberries. You see, the bastards like beer even more than they like...
View Articlelisten up: three intense and haunting picks
#1: Milo Greene, “1957″. I can’t get enough of this song or this band. Haunting, dreamy, and nostalgic. Makes me want to write a story. And the whole album has me quite entranced. Check it out. One...
View ArticleI quit! And it feels so good!!!
On a spur of whimsy, an offhand comment on twitter today, I made the decision to quit trying to market my books. And more importantly, to quit caring. It was directly linked to the impending release of...
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why I love NaNoWriMo (even though I always lose)
I sort of “fail” at NaNo every year. If you note my ticker, this year was like many past years. First week strong, second week loses steam. Third week it seems like half of the people around me have...
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ChickLitLove #2: romance in the bathroom
For #ChickLitLove Valentine week, Tuesday’s topic is to share a romantic excerpt from your work. Here is where I fear I may have the most unromantic romance book of the bunch. Who knows. Like...
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ChickLitLove #3: meet the leading men
For #ChickLitLove Valentine week, Wednesday’s topic is all about the guys. (For the record: I think it becomes clear that just in writing these interviews, I’ll need to forfeit my literary fiction...
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ChickLitLove #4: gal pals
For #ChickLitLove Valentine week, Thursday’s topic is about Galentine’s Day! “It’s what?” was about my first reaction. I thought it was a typo, lol! But maybe some of you guys don’t live under rocks...
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time in a bottle: on short stories and time spans
Short stories are often thought to be the story of a moment. Where a novel can cover years and years worth of time, the given wisdom is that a short story rarely covers more than a very succinct period...
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character profiles: Jodie, for example
I’ve shared this (or some version of it) on some of my other writing blogs, but I don’t think I’ve ever shared it here. This is an example of the character profile questionnaire I use. Feel free to...
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All the Other Boys, a short story
New Short Story, Now Available!!! Amazon US, UK, CA Smashwords Nook Apple iBooks A kooky and hopeless young woman recounts the spectacularly awful rise and fall of her first real relationship....
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week 1/52: fire in the sky at the end of the world
It is still January for another week or so, and thus, it is still the beginning of the year and not too late to start a new 52-weeks project. 2015′s project is not exactly a photo project, nor is it a...
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book covers for all the sleeping stories
I have begun a lot of stories in my time as a writer, and very few of them have ever come out the other side as finished, published books. Most of that is on me. As an indie author, I’m the only one...
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are you afraid of heights?
I have gotten into the bad habit of not blogging these past few years. Not blogging non-fiction, specifically, because I still post my silly sim stories all the time. But here, I’ll begin to write...
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I should post something here
Ohio does not believe it’s April yet. Virginia doesn’t, either, since we had snow just a couple of days ago. And I certainly can’t believe it’s April because I don’t know where the months went or how...
View ArticleI want to remember this day
- finished a story chapter, posted it on my blog - 12,143 steps - walking with my boys by the water - a cool breeze and cloudy sky - people fishing on the Potomac River - Dylan on the playground,...
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the quiet corners, an excerpt
I have said that this book was “coming soon” for so long that I’m sure most of my readers have forgotten I was ever writing a book at all! But I mean it this time. It’s coming soon! I’m just tweaking...
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Trail Ridge Road, Colorado: Leila’s roadtrip and mine
Most of the middle of our country is flatter than you can even believe. Like Leila, I grew up in Michigan and for the first 29 years of my life, hardly left it except one spring break trip to Florida....
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2016, so long sucker!
Please do let the door hit you on the way out! But 2016 was not all bad. Here were my favorite memories and accomplishments from the WORST YEAR EVER. 32 inches and still coming down for a few more...
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2017: whatever doesn’t kill you
I’m not going to talk about how I didn’t post to this blog at all in 2017, lol! 2016 left me feeling battered and hopeless. I might have even thought of 2017 as being awful, if you asked for a first...
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