I am in the midst of editing The Ancient, friends, so this will be brief. First: good news! I’ve read…
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Birth: A Writer’s Memoir
Reader, I finished it. A few days ago, I took the day off my online teaching job so I could…
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Diary of a Convalescent Soul
In the third book of the Gatekeeper trilogy, our heroine Anna Merritt has this conversation with her new friend, Sherry:…
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Genre-Bending and Other Daring Endeavors
Who here has seen that all too short-lived Nickelodeon classic Avatar: The Last Airbender? I’m not talking about the 2009…
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On Giant’s Shoulders: The Power of Music in Writing
Music has always been very important to my writing. I finished my first novel, Gatekeeper I: The Finding, in one…
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Myth Matters
I am on a lifelong quest to read everything ever penned by J. R. R. Tolkien. *contented sigh* I’ve read…
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Easy Rhymes and Trashy Romances
Recently, my marketing/business manager (aka The Hubs) did some research on poetry books that are selling well on Amazon. He…
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Now and Not Yet
We are currently in Holy Week, the seven days leading up to Easter. It begins with Palm Sunday, which commemorates…
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“Found Tonight” – with poetry
This week, my husband showed me this video of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt doing a glorious mash-up of two…
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