Writer’s Research: Google-y Eyes Are Upon You
You’re deep into drafting a chapter and suddenly you need to fact-check a place, person or thing. You quickly Google it on your phone, which leads to another click, another image or word or concept. And this somehow all weaves together in a surprising symmetry that’s downright uncanny—to use a favorite word of my protagonist, […]
Anti-Mask-ulinity and Other Selfish Character Traits
We probably all know someone like this. The guy who won’t wear a mask during this COVID crisis due to his personal freedom that shall not be infringed. And perhaps we lament that we had no idea he had such toxic self-absorption pulsing through his veins, and his psyche, back when we were supposedly friends […]
Plague of Gun Mongering Psychopaths: A Never-Ending Black Hole of Maniacal Murder
I’m wide awake at 3 a.m. listening to the wind howl outside my window, raging at the all- consuming fury and angst from the most recent atrocity of gun violence perpetrated by yet another all-too-predictable act of domestic terrorism. I had a different blog post ready for today regarding gun fetishists and their myopic self-serving […]
Word Bird: Power and Plumage of the Pen
The feisty protagonist of my Other Worldly series, Rowan Layne, is a woman writer who, like me, was once a newspaper columnist in a small town. Accordingly, I will occasionally wax poetic about the writing process in all its joys, and the juggernaut of angst. And if I tend to get a little grandiose in […]
Aliens Abound Launches on Spring Equinox
Aliens Abound, third installment of the Other Worldly fantasy series, launched today on Amazon, with more online bookstores soon to follow! Given that it’s the spring equinox, this could not be more perfect while I’m hard at work drafting the fourth book, Being Alien, with scintillating scenes taking place at Stonehenge… But today, here’s the […]
Gaslighting Sociopaths: Have We All Been With the Same Guy?
I started to call this post “Why Cowboys Are No Longer My Fantasy,” but that wouldn’t convey the subject at hand, and no sense in blindsiding readers. Though I might have done so in Alienable Rights, first book of the Other Worldly series, with a certain former-cowboy character. The thing is, this character turned out […]
Not Your Big Brother’s Science Fiction
If you write about aliens, it must be science fiction fantasy, right? Not as it turns out. This inaugural blog post launches just prior to the release of Aliens Abound, the third book in my Other Worldly series. And at this juncture, I have a pretty good idea of what the books are—and aren’t—when it […]
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