The Amazon/Hachette brou-ha-ha continues apace and it occurred to me that I'm not sure readers know why this matters. To get to that, I thought I'd do a few little posts on things about the book industry that I find…
I love watching movies. All kinds of movies. I love a good cheesy, made for TV movie (Sharknado, anyone?) or a movie that probably should be more realistically called a "film." It's a handy thing that my husband also enjoys…
I'm excited to announce that I'll be at my first ever book signing as part of DC Fest on August 17th! My publisher is having a table/booth in their vendor area and she asked me to come along an help…
Since I got a handful of comments from people who enjoyed the photos from Ireland, I thought I'd share one more. Since my story stays in County Cork, the characters had to visit Blarney. (Honestly, you can't visit Ireland without…
I just finished a novella set in Kinsale, Ireland. (Well, and other bits of the surrounding Cork county.) When I've got it edited, I plan to submit it to a publisher who has a series of novellas set in overseas…
They (that magical, mysterious "they") say, "Don't judge a book by its cover." But how well does that work in practice? I would say there are four factors that influence my decisions to buy a book - so I wanted…
Can you believe this week is the last week of July!? August around here always seems crazy with the back-to-school sales starting up and traffic hitting a major crescendo as everyone leaves for their last minute vacations. Then traffic keeps…
I mentioned previously that, scandal of all scandals, I used the word "damn" in Hope Deferred. I still stand by that decision, but there are at least two people out there who will never read anything else of mine because…
This is going to be short because it's been a little crazy with VBS this week and I haven't had time to sit and put together a post that's useful, entertaining, or interesting. I will say I'm working to bring…
This week is VBS at our church. My older son is excited beyond words. Seriously, he's been jumping around all day asking various things about it - is it just tomorrow? It's all week?! Cool! And so forth. It's fun…