WARNING:  THIS IS A NO-EDIT ZONE... I wrote the initial WRITERS AND MEDICAL ISSUES post and received the following email from author and friend, Sue (SUSAN) KRINARD...

WARNING:  THIS IS A NO-EDIT ZONE... One doesn’t typically think of writers being subject to health challenges due to their work.  But writers are prone to several medical...

There’s currently an enormous buzz about copyright infringement and book piracy--and it appears that a significant number of authors are victims, which makes agents and...

The prospect of creating a new series of novels can be both invigorating and intimidating. Which it proves to be depends largely on how the writer’s mind works.  If s/he tends to...

Life, they say, is what happens while you’re otherwise occupied. I’m not sure if I believe that, but I do believe that you can miss life by being occupied.   We can get caught up...

We all have an internal compass. It comes to us as flashes of intuition, gut instinct.  Sometimes, when danger threatens, it raises the hair on our necks and arms.  At others, it...

Lately, my inbox has been flooded with questions and comments on the Smart Bitches and Cassie Edwards situation.  So rather than respond privately to each of these things, I’ve...

My husband is a multi-medium artist.  One medium is pottery.  I enjoy watching him work with the clay and have since he was working with Raku one day and I was helping him quench...

  It is day 4 in our new year.  A few days/weeks ago, I did a post that spoke of clusters.  Things happening in clusters, actually.  That’s holding true for the new year. In...