Bloodstain
As a kind of sub-challenge for the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge, every Monday I plan to post some specially-written flash fiction. I have picked random words that start with the letter theme for each Monday,...
Tagged: fiction
A Picture Paints 1000 Words
Today, I’m participating in a blogfest sponsored by Unicorn Bell. In this blogfest, the participants choose one of the provided pictures and use that as inspiration for a 1000 word story. They post their...
RTW: When Jasper Met Pearl
Today’s Road Trip Wednesday challenge from YA Highway is: Write a dialogue between two of your favorite YA characters. While I have read some great YA books with interesting characters, my favorite YA characters,...
Happy Thanksgiving!
I wrote the following story as a special Thanksgiving gift to my readers. Thank you all for reading and commenting on my blog. I sincerely hope you all have a great day! A Thanksgiving...
Banned Book Profile: The Harry Potter Series
For our next installment of books, or book series, that, you might be surprised to learn, have been banned, challenged, or otherwise censured by groups or organizations since publication, I’m highlighting the phenomenon that...
Banned Book Profile: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Banned Books Week continues, and the latest in my series of books that, you might be surprised to learn, have been banned, challenged, or otherwise censured by groups or organizations since publication. THE FACTS:...
Writing Status Update
It’s been a few weeks since I last posted on the progress of my projects. So, here goes: The Novel: If you’ve clicked on the tab above, you’ll know this is called ALEXANDRA, and...
New Blog Pages!
Look up… no, too far… I mean up at the top of the page, next to where it says “About” on this page. Do you see what I’ve added there? Yes, there are some...
Querying and Dating
Today I received a rejection from the wonderful agent who requested my full manuscript. <sigh>. She’s still a wonderful agent–I’m not that petty. Really, it would have been a lot of fun working with...
Status Update
I thought I would give you a quick update on where I am with my writing. First, I am now querying agents for Novel One. So far I have had one rejection and one...
