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Birthing Books

Writing a book is like birthing a baby. At conception, you have an idea that impregnates and permeates your imagination. Over the weeks, your book takes shape and form, growing from a mere idea into something that resembles a plot.

You add a few things here and there until your book finally reflects the finished product. During the editing phase, your book gains “weight”, beefing up its pages to perfect the storyline you’ve worked so hard to create.

At the moment of birth, your book is published, a brand new story to greet the world. You’re so proud of it; you show it off to anyone who will pay attention, telling one and all the trials and triumphs of writing your epic.

Everyone oohs and aahs over your creation, telling you how perfect it’s cover is, and how wonderful it must be to hold it in your hands.

Blogging About Blogs

Authors these days seem to be writing, even when they’re not writing. Whether it be on their newsletter, their Yahoo or Google group, their websites, or their blogs. Some folks believe we have “outgrown” the day of the blog. But I beg to differ. Blogs are here to stay.

Doesn't it Just Figure?

After years of struggling, of promoting myself hither and yon, and of getting my name out to the masses, according to Murphy’s Law, something’s got to give, right? Lately, it’s been my writing. Why is it now that success is finding me, I hardly have any time to write at all?

In the Name of Research

Authors everywhere will tell you research is important. Not only for historicals, but for anything you write about that you don’t know. But there is one area I wonder if authors do any research at all. Their character’s names.

THE WOLVERINE AND THE FLAME is Now Available!

How does it all end? For the longest time, I wondered that myself. I knew I was going to have a blast writing a story for Sir Ethan, one of my favorite Wolverines. But making Mynos the bad guy? Risky move, but a darn cool plot!

THE WOLVERINE AND THE ROSE is in PRINT!!

Cowboys & Indians

I love me a juicy Western romance. There’s just something about sand, sage, and sex. Fast horses, fast guns, & fast men. But taking a look around, I’ve noticed a shortage in this genre, maybe not so much in the print world, but definately in eBooks.

Where have all the Indians gone?

Paranormal Romance is Here to Stay

A lot of people think paranormal romance is a “fad”, something that will go the way of the Dodo in a year or two. Or three. Or four. :) But I believe it’s here to stay. Paranormal romance authors are currently enjoying enormous success and critical acclaim for writing about vampires, shifters, ghosties, immortals, gods, goddesses, and all sorts of things that go bump in the night.