My birthday was yesterday! Anyone else have a February birthday? Any other fellow Aquarians? I had a great celebration with gifts from my family, tacos and drinks with my brother, SIL, and niece, and then a day of record and used bookstore browsing. I did get the one record I was especially looking for! I would say it was one
Confession time: this post was going to be “January Writing Prompts.” Time got away from me, and we’re nearing the end of January. But hey, they can be February writing prompts, too! There’s still plenty of winter left…here in Chicago, at least. (And if you’re writing a Christmas romance or a fantasy novel set in a cold, snowy land, it
Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a good week so far! I’m blogging about something more serious today, but I won’t go into any awful details. This week, Vulture ran a long story about the author Neil Gaiman’s abuse of women. If I’m understanding things clearly, it adds to information already shared in a podcast last summer. I’m not going
Welcome to Work in Progress Wednesday! WIP Wednesday is usually the first Wednesday of every month. It’s when I share an excerpt of what I’m working on, and if you’re a writer, so can you! Be sure you’re subscribed to the blog (sign up in the upper lefthand corner) so you’ll get a heads up about future WIP Wednesdays. And
Hi all! Happy New Year! I hope it’s off to a good start! We had a road trip to Arizona to visit family. We’re very lucky that the dogs are good travelers! They enjoy hanging out in the backseat, napping or checking out the scenery, and they aren’t alarmed to find themselves in various motels. Anyway, I wanted to tell
For the past several years, I’ve chosen a word of the year…and it has not always worked out! The year I chose “Fun,” for example, hoping to focus on fun activities, was one of the least fun years of my adult life. I’m happy to say that I have learned absolutely nothing from my disappointments. After all, on a few
For my romcom novel that came out last month, I tried a lot of author marketing… I made TikToks and Instagram posts and reels, trying out different angles and tactics. (I also tweeted, but I’ve since left Twitter/X for Bluesky, because Twitter/X stopped letting you block mean people and had way too much yelling.) I got into my hometown paper