So, I know I try to focus things around here more on the reader end of things than the writer end, but I'm struggling with a question of ethics and thought it seemed like a reasonable thing to throw out…
My son hates to write. As I'm a writer, you can probably imagine why this makes me, by turns, sad and annoyed. I mean, I'm not really expecting the next great American novel. He's only in the 2nd grade. But…
Everything around here seems to be screaming about it being Back to School time. Since we homeschool, this is less of an issue for our family, but it still heralds many busy days ahead. Scouts is ramping up, Awana is…
My to-be-read pile has diminished to practically nothing, so I need your help. What are you reading right now? What do you love about it? Ready? Go!
Over the summer, Amazon changed the way they're paying for titles in the Kindle Select program. (Basically, for the uninitiated, Kindle Select means that your books are available only on Amazon. If you enroll them in that, they're eligible to…
Sometimes being a grown-up is hard. If you are a grown-up, the above is not news. If you're not one, well, go on dreaming those dreams of how when you're grown-up you'll do what you want and no one will…
This past week was my sister's birthday. (I'll leave off the year, in deference to her, since she can be sensitive about it. But she is older than I am. I have to say that since I'm her little sister.)…
You probably haven't noticed (or maybe you have, I don't know) but I recently re-designed the covers for A Splash of Substance and A Pinch of Promise. I'm pleased with how they turned out (though I loved the originals, too.)…
Every now and then, I like to think back over the books I've been reading and revisit the stories in my head. Doing that inevitably suggest that maybe I ought to make more of an "official" recommendation. So that's what…