I’m going to start a new feature on the blog: What Do You Think? In this one, you’ll have the chance to put your two cents in on a variety of topics. As with most of my blog posts, it’s going to be totally random, but I’ll try to come up with some fantastic questions…
DetailsI’ve found a new fantasy/mystery series, this one by Bailey Cates. It’s about a woman who moves to Savannah (Georgia) to start over. She buys into her aunt’s new bakery and learns that everyone in her family is a witch. In the first book, Brownies & Broomsticks, a grouchy customer is found murdered in front…
DetailsI’ve started a new paranormal mystery series. This is by Juliet Blackwell, the author of the witchcraft series I read recently. She also has a Haunted Home Renovation series about a female construction engineer and her startling (and annoying) ability to suddenly see ghosts. In this series, Melanie (Mel) Turner is making a name for…
DetailsIt’s First Wednesday, so it’s time for a new Insecure Writer’s Support Group post! This month’s question: In this constantly evolving industry, what kind of offering/service do you think the IWSG should consider offering to members? Of course, more services means more work for the good folks who run our site! However, if we’re considering…
DetailsHow are you enjoying this serialization experiment? I’m going to wrap up Chapter 1 and see what the survey says (as it were)… [[Want me to show you some short cuts then?]] That, as I’ve planned, gets his attention and forestalls a possible argument. ADAM isn’t unreasonable. He’s just a child, like any other flesh…
DetailsHere’s the next part of our serialized Chapter 1. How’s it working for you? I step through the doorway into this room, finding ADAM “sitting” in an easy chair, reading an old-style paper news report. His avatar is dressed in jeans and a t-shirt advertising our band, Gaoth ón Bhfaiiaige. Tel says it means “Sea…
DetailsI hope this little behind-the-scenes serialization is entertaining for you. You’re getting to see the initial rough draft, before I go back and polish the chapter for publication. When I disconnect from my physical body, I “see” the electronic world as a grid, with lines connecting various hubs and a glow which is brighter the…
DetailsHere’s a bit more from Chapter 1 of Planetscape for you. I hope you’re enjoying the behind-the-scenes look at how an author creates a novel. After breakfast at Lori’s, Tel’s father wanted to see the Japanese gardens, so here we are. I’m sitting this one out, as my leg still hasn’t fully healed. The kidnappers’…
DetailsHere’s a glimpse at the first draft of Book 2, currently titled Planetscape. It’s a very (very) rough draft, as you will see, and I’m going to post a bit today and a bit next week and so on… It’s chilly in San Francisco on a winter’s morning. My link says it’s 13 degrees Celsius.…
DetailsI’ve found a second Tarot series, this one by Bevan Atkinson. This series is less light-hearted than Steve Hockensmith’s, though there is humor. The murders are a little more upfront and in-your-face as well, which doesn’t bother me. Our heroine is a bonafide mystic who sometimes gets visions when she reads the cards. In the…
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