Well, having thought long and hard on Janet Reid’s post of March 30, 2008, I think my best option is to finish the S.L. novel, and shop it instead of the recently completed T.W. or the nearing completion T.V.S. That said, I probably ought to email the agents with T.W. and pull it from consideration. [...]

She didn’t fit — not anywhere.  Not with the nerds, though she got straight A’s like they did, wore glasses…like they did, and could beat them at chess.  She didn’t fit.  Not with the sports, booze, ’n sex crowd, at all.  Certainly not with the druggies.  She didn’t fit in anywhere. She was The Loner — alone [...]

Well, it’s official.  I know without a doubt which novel will sell first.    *     *     *    MEANWHILE, here’s a book that looks interesting that’s due on shelves April 15th, 2008 The Atlantis Prophecy

An author friend of mine asked me how it is that I can work on several books at once.  He suggested that, perhaps, I must surgically trisect my brain.  Well, no.  I just have (at the moment) three muses, one per active project.  And each one dictates what we’re going to do to their work [...]

One of the nice things about novel writing is that, when I have a good, solid draft or book outline/synopsis, getting a work into publishable form is a lot easier for me than it is, say, for someone who’s trying to “slam a home-run” from the get go.  I have all sorts of luxury to bend, fold, spindle, mutilate, warp, [...]

People discover I write, and that I do it full time. Instantly, they start dragging out their personal histories, hoping, even begging me to write it as a family saga or “the life and times of….” “Ah, I write fiction, not memoirs or biographies,” I tell them. They nod their heads, eager for me to [...]

THE NEW TOSHIBA LAPTOP COMPUTER: Ah…well…working fine — phenomenally, even.  Hey, it’s a Toshiba, a company whose laptop computers are the very best in my opinion.  However, installing my favorite programs is a bit of a slow process as always, and Word 2007, which came pre-installed, makes me nervous until I try it for awhile.  [...]

Our town has a water problem.  The city is very good at hiding this fact from, both, the locals and potential buyers coming into “one of the best places to live” — hubbub spread by greedy Realtors in cahoots with the Chamber who engages savvy marketeers, their bold, outright lies spread like caviar across the face [...]

So I’m sitting here at my computer, minding my own business, hacking and slashing chunks of dead tissue out of my next selected release when, from out of the sky, drops this new story.  Like ripe fruit, it’s plump, juicy, smells delicious, and makes my mouth water.  Such temptation.  Dutifully, I take the gift, careful not [...]

Once I’m into a book, I can write up to 10,000 words a day.  It’s a looong day, for sure, but I’m so immersed in the story, I don’t notice the time…or my growling stomach.  A query letter, though.  It takes me hours, sometimes days and weeks, to write one.  I’ve determined that I am [...]