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You can’t see the fairies unless you were born in the evening, or so the saying goes. I was a dawn baby, so I doubted … Continue

Finding time to write without distractions is a challenge. My children, both young adults, are on their own, so parenting is no longer an issue. The culprits are those dinner plans that creep into an exciting rescue or tender love scene, or the grocery list that competes with my list of revisions. Telephone ca… Continue

According to Dictionary.com, slang is "the jargon of a particular class, profession, etc." Several dictionaries suggest that the word "slang" originated from the Norwegian phrase "slengja kjeften" (literally, to sling the jaw).… Continue

With all the information available these days, writing about places an author has never seen requires little more than clicking on real estate ads and vacation sites or opening one of the many geographical guides tailored for writers and armchair travelers. The Writer's Guide to Pla… Continue

I’m lost in a storm of marketing my first book while trying to complete my third. The realization that I have a responsibility to promote A Band of Roses doesn’t diminish my enthusiasm for the third book in the "Roses" trilogy, but it definitely cuts into the time I’d like to dev… Continue