by Vicki Hinze | Sep 12, 2019 | My Kitchen Table, On Writing
For some time, I’ve worried about young teens and the impact on them of lyrics and music. This concern goes back to the early days of my own kids being young teens and lyrics that sent destructive messages. I worried that putting those songs into their heads would...
by Vicki Hinze | Sep 4, 2019 | On Writing
It isn’t always convenient. It isn’t always easy. But it is always worth it. What am I talking about? Mentoring. Authors mentoring authors. Early on in writing, I had simple questions that I would spent hours trying to answer correctly. Several years...
by Vicki Hinze | Jun 24, 2019 | My Faith Zone, My Kitchen Table, On Writing
Define lucky. I can’t speak for all, of course, but lucky is defined differently for different people in different situations. Sometimes luck is luck, and sometimes it is the result of some pretty intense effort—though, not necessarily on the exact same thing....
by Vicki Hinze | Oct 11, 2018 | Book Alert, My Faith Zone, My Kitchen Table, On Writing
Sometimes the best laid plans get… well, waylaid. Vicki and I have been looking forward to the release of So Many Secretssince the end of March—truthfully longer, but that’s close enough—and during the time she’s supposed to be uploading my posts, her website goes...
by Vicki Hinze | Sep 7, 2018 | Book Alert, Default, My Kitchen Table, On Writing
Today the Short Reads release in the Breakdown series. I’m excited. These four women–Laney, Dana, Julia and Ana–are ones you come to know well during the course of the Breakdown novels. In these Short Reads, we (meaning, the authors), wanted to...
by Vicki Hinze | Aug 20, 2018 | My Kitchen Table, On Writing
Tomorrow night I have the pleasure of chatting with John and Jeff Ayers on Suspense Magazine Radio. We’ll talk books and writing–and honestly, who knows what else? When we get do these chats, sometimes we veer into those life, death and universe chats I...
