Want to overcome writer's block? That's right. Care LESS. Trying for perfection when writing your first draft is the best way ever to stop your writing cold. "Should she hold a rose or a daisy?" "What is the significance of each?" "What if her brother was really her...
Lucy and I have a lot in common. Her love of antiques and how she came by it is just one example. Both of us grew up in antique crazy families. My father was the first president of our local Collector’s Club and I spent most of my childhood going to various shows,...
With Buffy and now Twilight, vampires are more popular than they have ever been. So popular that it can be exceedingly hard to get one to answer an invitation to dinner or just a quiet night out. So what’s a vampire loving guy or girl got to do to get one to answer...
The first step is having a manuscript that you feel good about – good enough that you would send it off to agents or editors. Self-Publishing Checklist: 1.) Hire an editor. I know you just went through multiple rounds of critiques. Trust me. It isn’t enough. You still...
Lately, I've been getting a number of emails from people asking how to get their first book published. Enough that I realized there was still a need for some step-by-step guidelines on how to get your book published. So, you have a book and you want to get it...
Considering writing romance novels? Romance is one of the top selling genres in fiction and has been for a very long time. Romance gets a bad rap and when you say you are writing romance, you may get a superior look or two. Shake it off. These people know nothing...
We haven’t done the RV camping thing for years, since selling our fifth wheel right after leaving Montana. So when we got a new travel trailer we knew we needed to a couple of short “test” trips before setting off a big multi-day adventure. We wanted somewhere...
Later this summer we are heading to Gettysburg, PA. I visited Gettysburg when I was around 12 and had no intention of returning – ever. However, when my husband and I were looking for a place to go on vacation Pennsylvania for some reason came to my mind and I started...
When we lived in Montana and were care-free (read pre-kids) my husband and I had a fifth-wheel trailer that we loved. We bought the trailer to accommodate our (then) three dogs: a 120-pound malamute, a 75-pound Siberian husky and a 55-pound Aussie/German shepherd mix....
