In honor of my birthday, I thought I'd share a deleted scene from Wisdom to Know. I really enjoyed this scene, but I have it on good authority from several readers that the non-software-engineers amongst us (i.e. most people) would…
Most of the time, being a critique partner is awesome - you get to read (yay!) quality fiction (if you've managed to get someone who writes good stuff as your CP -- I have) before anyone else (or at least…
I'm not 100% sure that I'm finished tweaking the new site design, but by and large I'm pleased with what I've been able to accomplish so far. I seriously considered hiring the job out, even went so far as to…
Being a writer is a lot like just about anything else. It has its ups and downs and in betweens. There are days you think you're a rock star. And there are days you just think you're a rock. But…
I mentioned that I was doing a read through of my manuscript (gosh that sounds pretentious to me, I need to figure out what to call the thing. I guess WIP is better, though whenever I think WIP, I think…
So as I'm working through edits on Wisdom to Know (you can read the blurb under Books if you're so inclined), I've gotten two comments from my Critique Partner that left me scratching my head. So...am I the weird one,…
There's a rather long (and it seems to be a teeny bit heated in some cases, honestly) discussion on the ACFW main loop right now about the use of tags in dialog. (Tags, for those not up on their writing…
When I sat down at the start of November last year and decided that this year, finally, I was going to well and truly finish a novel (I have several novels in various states of unfinished heaped on my hard…