While I plan the release of Peg’s Story: In Search of Self, I’m still writing. I have several short stories that I’m turning into romance...

While I plan the release of Peg’s Story: In Search of Self, I’m still writing. I have several short stories that I’m turning into romance...

While I plan the release of Peg’s Story: In Search of Self, I’m still writing. I have several short stories that I’m turning into romance...

While I plan the release of Peg’s Story: In Search of Self, I’m still writing. I have several short stories that I’m turning into romance...

While I plan the release of Peg’s Story: In Search of Self, I’m still writing. I have several short stories that are actually thumbnail...

People always ask if the stories I write are about me. No, their stories are not mine. But, yeah, #Me Too. My fictional characters have...

Happy New Year! I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions—of course I want to lose weight, exercise regularly, and waste less time on...

Each year I was in Arizona, a group of us would gather near the changing of the year and spend an evening with stacks of old magazines...

In 2016, I made a respectable amount of money as a writer. I really wanted to make more this year. Instead, I’ve made virtually none. I...

My to-do list tends to be insane. At times it’s grown to multiple two-column pages. That may be okay for long range planning or keeping...

It did not win in either category, but I requested feedback from the judges involved and it arrived today. They each give a numerical...

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re doing Thankmas at my home this year, ten of us having turkey together Thursday, then Christmas the next...

A few weeks ago I completed my new novel and started pitching it to agents. Logically, I should have gone straight to my non-fiction...

Balance is essential to our well-being. At this point in my life, I’m spending forty to sixty hours a week on writing and related...

As I understand it, writer’s block is that empty feeling when you sit staring at the screen or paper with no clue what to write. I’ve had...

Unless you’re writing just for yourself, writing is not just writing. There are a host of other activities that use your time as well,...

There are people with day jobs who get up before dawn to have an hour or two of writing time. They have my admiration. When I was...

You’re writing a book. Are you approaching this as a profession or is it a hobby? Given how difficult it is to be successful, it might be...

I work with several critique groups. Some of them have us email pages ahead of the meeting and we come prepared to dive right into...

I recently had an artist/writer ask me to review her book. She’d made water colors based on photographs she took on a journey to Thailand...

I’ve taken courses and workshops in English, journalism, fiction writing, poetry writing, technical writing, grant writing, and probably...

Writer’s Market, Writer’s Digest Magazine, The Writer Magazine, and Writer’s Digest Books. Internet Today, the internet is my primary...

It’s Friday! I lost a day helping with the Gold Country Writers’ booth at the Gold Country Fair in Auburn, CA. All of my books are on...

The world goes on while we write: The term “buckets of rain” became real to me in 1972, when Tropical Storm Agnes stalled over...