I wasn’t sure what to think about this conference because I hadn’t ever been to the LCLC before and now that I am here, all I can say is this fits me to a T. The small intimate atmosphere and welcoming environment sucked me right in from the start. When we arrived at 1:30am and… Read More LCLC Early Recap
I’m having an identity crisis…no not about my sexuality. There is absolutely no confusion there because I am 100% a lesbian. My identity crisis has to do with my writing. My debut book Love Forever, Live Forever was considered paranormal by some readers. For the rabid fans of paranormal, I suspect it fell far short… Read More Identity Crisis
This past weekend I started a thread on a familiar topic…reviews. I genuinely wanted to understand the difference between a performance evaluation and an evaluation of a book. Since my day job is as a Human Resources executive there are clear guidelines regarding feedback: praise in public and correct in private. One response that made perfect… Read More Book Reviews – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly…
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve participated in threads on covers, editing your work, overused descriptions, and the perception that writers need to apologize for not meeting every single reader’s unique taste in fiction. Personally, I love the dialogue. I think it stems from my upbringing and the encouragement of healthy debate at the dinner… Read More Covers and More…
What the heck? What do adaptability and humor have in common? Over the past two days I’ve been embroiled in the opportunity to learn and network with my colleagues in the healthcare human resources profession. It’s a great group of people because despite the normal perception of human resource professionals, when you get us away… Read More Adaptabiliy and Humor
Over the past couple of days I’ve been contributing to two different threads about a familiar topic, lesbian fiction and the subtle or not so subtle pressure to make everything about romance or love. We hear it all the time from publishers, speakers, and the actual research data that Michelle Hagans so generously shared with us… Read More Romancing the Reader…
As I cogitated (Gosh I love that word) over what I would explore as my topic for my weekly blog, I became increasingly distracted by ironically the idea of writer distractions. I’d had a fair number of them over the past week. Originally, I wanted to talk about the question that came forth on The… Read More Writer’s Distractions
Why do I write? I posed that question to myself a few days ago (yes I talk to myself all the time – don’t judge) after posting a very short and apparently very shocking teaser. As I re-read the teaser, which was nestled between two other less shocking scenes, I had to gasp at what… Read More Why Do I Write?
I like to take risks because the greater the risk, the greater the reward. At least that’s always been my experience…Of course the flip side of that is the risks that cause a budding career to go kerplop. Readers and writers who have followed my posts and teasers know I have a very risky WIP… Read More When Ya Gonna Write About me?
Gasp! I’m a word hoarder. I recently came to that shocking realization when writing a story that I plan to submit for the 2017 GCLS fundraiser. I’ve been open and honest about my OCD (or rather CDO) and also my hoarding tendencies during our major move from big house to small condo, but this was a… Read More I’m A Word Hoarder
