I’m sure you all know by now that I am currently working on book number three. I’m sorry I don’t have a confirmed title to share yet, but maybe I will have a reveal party or something else fun once I have it figured out. Or maybe I will even have a contest to see which of my choices you like best? I may have a reveal for the cover too. Who knows? Stay tuned to find out! As I was going through my character list for my next book, I looked back at the cast of people who played r

Since Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) made self-publishing your own work free and easy, it seems like everyone is doing it. But even...

If you’ve been reading my Author Anthropology blogs, you know that the last one ended with me finishing the second draft of my first...

This is the last of my four-part blog series titled “Author Anthropology.” Read “Part 1”, “Part 2”, and “Part 3” to find out how I got to this stage in my life. The third part of this blog left off at me completing NaNoWriMo in 2018, converting my sci-fi screenplay, RJ436, into a book—well, the first, ugly draft of it, anyway. In 2019, I didn’t take part in the contest. Instead, I took the month off from writing. I'd been doing a lot of painting, and I was really enjoying it.

If you haven’t read “Part 1” and “Part 2” of my of my "Author Anthropology" blog, you may want to read them first to catch up on what...

Welcome to “Part 2” of my “Author Anthropology”. Be sure and read my blog from last week if you want to know about my earlier life. “Part...

I was recently asked to give a presentation about my first book, The RH Factor, to a singles’ group whose members live in my community—a...

If you read my blog titled "Everyone Has a Story", you already know that I am a little obsessed with John Koenig’s book, The Dictionary...

Writing is not my only hobby. There are a lot of other things I enjoy doing, like journaling, reading, playing piano, calligraphy,...

When I’m writing a fiction book, one of my many goals is to make the readers feel like they are there, inside the story with my characters. I want them to feel as immersed in this make-believe world as possible. I want them to feel like they are standing beside them or in the same room with them as they journey through the chapters. But how do I do that? As a writer, how can I make my fictional world as believable as possible? I try to create what I call, Fictional Realism. I

One day when I was searching the internet for new word ideas to use in my book, I came across a very interesting website. It was The...

The easiest answer to the question of how to sell more books is to break down and open your wallet, and hire someone to do it for you....

I have a lot of hobbies, and one of them is playing the piano. I didn’t start taking lessons until I was in my late twenties. When I was...

In my early thirties, I learned to scuba dive. My then boyfriend, now husband, loved to dive, and he made me curious. Not only did his...

Holy cow! Can it really already be January the 15th? Yes, it can. I’m a little behind the eight-ball here, but have decided it’s not too late to commit to a few writing goals for 2024. My hope is to try very hard to list only goals that are realistic (she said, with a chuckle). I tend to be a little too optimistic about how much I think I can get done in a year—a month, a week, a day! There are so many interesting things to do in life that it’s hard to fit them all in! And, I

Before I decided to use Pax in my first book, The RH Factor, I asked him to come in for an interview. After all, how could I know if he was the right man for the job? Sure, I knew who he was. I had invented him. But there were some important questions I needed answers to if he was going to make the cut. So, we set up a video call, and this is how it went. When the video window opened and I first saw his face, I was surprised to see that he was better looking than I had expect

It’s book release day! Yay! After multiple edit passes, counting the days while the U.S. Copyright Office approved my request, and waiting for Amazon KDP to approve it and make it public, my new book, MYND Control, is available for purchase! Right now, the book is available in ebook or paperback format. I hope one day to have an audio book version. But I am a self-published author with a small budget and creating an audiobook is a time-consuming, expensive undertaking, so…we

Self-publishing is a journey—a never-ending adventure of learning. Just when I think I have everything figured out, I discover another...

In case you've never seen the title word of this blog, anticippointment, don't bother to look it up. I will save you some time. You won't...

The best laid plans don't always pan out, but life is too short to beat yourself up about it.