I’m about to post the Fall Feature Article, Reflections.  Wanted to let you know it was being uploaded. RWA members:  It’s time to vote.  There’s online voting this year,...

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—try to please everybody." --Herbert Bayard Swope I spent the morning with a writer who was...

Rumors of my demise are exaggerated. I’ve been suffering a malady common to writers--deadline-itis.  And I’m happy to report that I’ve survived! I’m typically up for trying new...

Today I’m starting a new series, Yes!  Success!  And I hope that whether or not you’re a writer, you’ll gain something of benefit from the posts.  The ideology and methods are...

We often hear about everything going wrong.  Far less often, we hear what’s going right. So I thought I’d share a few “good news” tidbits picked up at the conference, and ask all...

You’ve written 250 pages of a 350 page book and something happens. Your hard drive is highjacked or infested with a virus/worm. Your hard drive crashes. You think, no problem, I...

I’ve been dividing my time, working on a lot of different projects lately.   One project is a supernatural fantasy series.  One is a suspense.  One is an unrelated, quirky...

Odd that this comes about less than 24-hours after Independence Day, but a spammer has hijacked one of my net mailing addresses to make it appear that the emails are coming from...