Gal Pals Are Life’s “Listening” Umbrella
I use rubber stamps to make handcrafted cards, as does my Other Worldly protagonist Rowan Layne. One says, Girlfriends Matter, and the other, Friends are the umbrella in the storms of life. Before I delve into this gal pal subject further, some background on how it occurred to me as a focus for this post. […]
Time Is Loopy And So Am I
I was thinking about how time got away from me this week, as I meant to post on my blog yesterday, then I reverted straight to the realization of how silly it is that humans think they can control time, buy time, hold time in their hands…you get the idea. Time doesn’t get away from […]
Pesky Typos Happen To The Best Of Us
There’s this funny—or at least it makes me chuckle as well as groan—bit of snark seen on Facebook, posted among writers groups, that goes something like this, although I’ve embellished it herein for effect and to indulge personal flair: Here’s to all the typos, misspellings, and other inexplicable maddening glitches that persevere despite a writer’s […]
Post-Yule Yearend Musings Over Spilt Coffee
For the past week I’ve been writing again like a fiend, working on my seventh novel of my Other Worldly series, Aliens Watch. And fiend is the attempted first word I used for Wordle today, just for kicks, which wasn’t the puzzle-solving word, so don’t anyone get their panties in a spoiler-alert wad because I’ve […]
Who Knew They’d Make A Luna Moth Christmas Ornament?
During this week before Christmas, I’m just happy to be actively writing again, moving right along on the seventh novel of my Other Worldly series, Aliens Watch. Because November and now December have turned out to be stress-inducing and expensive, and not for the usual holiday-related reasons. First, I spent the Sunday and Monday before […]
Nevada Fake Electors Finally Indicted
Last week on December 6 we learned that the rule of law was finally being upheld in Nevada by Attorney General Aaron Ford via a Clark County Grand Jury indictment of six fake Trump electors. Of course, it was difficult to celebrate this momentous occasion coming on the heels of another mass shooting the very […]
Tis The Season…For Wanting To Trash Technology
Have you seen that movie Office Space wherein three dudes take their despised office fax machine out into an open field and smash it to smithereens with a sledgehammer, their feet, and even their fists? That’s what I wanted to do with my home printer yesterday while spending nearly four hours with my laptop failing […]
Perfect Timing: Author Interview With Atmosphere Press
Last week my blog post addressed an author interview question I recently fielded, about potential sound tracks for my latest novel, Altogether Alien, which published this past spring. This week, I bring you the entire interview with the link attached below. For this opportunity, I was among twenty authors selected from more than six hundred […]
Disco Dancing Around Lyrics To Avoid Song Rights Infringement
Recently I fielded an author interview question, what soundtrack would you put to your novel? My first thought, albeit off-track, was do you know how tricky it is to weave song mentions and inherent themes into a book without including actual lyrics? Because to do so is a no-no, unless you manage the near impossible […]
Sci Fi (Sort of) That I Like To Read, Now That I’ve Written It
A recent question posed by a member of the writing community on Twitter made me pause, for a new and improved reason. It was about whether to write in the genre you enjoy reading, due to a presumption that one must be an avid reader of any given fiction genre in order to write successfully […]