1. Knowing intimately the frustration of possessing both visibly toned biceps and a floppy gut pooch. 2. Realizing that while muscle...

Personal post. Rather than preach, I’ll tell you a story. When I was in middle school, some douchebag grabbed my butt. I’d thought the...

Well, I had to, didn’t I? *Spoilers ahead.* I’ll level with you. Star Wars is a saga which has dominated the span of my life as a movie...

Sooooooo…. Well a little over a year’s worth of blogging has produced exactly what I dreaded. An essentially defunct project at which...

Remember the whole “Procrastinating Novelist” bit of the blog title? Well, absence from the blog means presence in the fiction writing....

Common practice for Historical Fiction Writers is to research exhaustively the time period in which their novel is set. The timeframe in...

*Thanks to Dawn Orr, Donna Wilson, and Gina Aldrich for dressing me up, taking the pics, making me smile and feel pretty. And thank you...

This week as I was revising The Whisper of Souls (working title), I came across a scene that I just flat hated. It contained dialogue as...

In bygone days, fiction writers could write their books, enter the publishing rat race, land a deal, and then leave the business end of...