A Day in the Garden
I’m at a stopping point in the march to publication. My edits on the first book are all done, and I have a new title and a some shiny new ad copy. Within a...
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Who Doesn’t Love Anxiety Dreams?
In my former life, I was a DJ. I was both the spinning records in the nightclub kind (‘Hey, when are you gonna play something that doesn’t suck?”) and the WKRP radio station kind....
It’s like Dune with more sex!
You know what’s easy? Writing a 400 page novel. Hell, it’s such a piece of cake I’ve done it twice! Haha! Creating characters, putting clothes on them, making them interact and eat and drink...
Using your time at work wisely!
It started out with this: A man, his rectal cavity, 30 eyeballs. Which led us to speculate about…well…a lot of things. Many of us were tempted to turn away, leaving the big questions...
Let’s talk (more) about sex!
And thank you, Fictionista Cait, for putting Salt N Pepa in my head when you came up with this topic. So imagine everyone you know, during sex, slams their head into the wall...
Dirty Talkin’
This week the Fictionistas are talking about bad words. Now, we all know there are no bad words – it’s the intent behind them that makes them so. But if you’re writing YA, there...
Eating Habits
NOTE: Olive and Grape is in New Hope, not Bryn Mawr, sorry! This week the Fictionistas are talking about what we eat while we write. I had to make something up because I don’t...
Wednesday vlog on Thursday
My Fictionista vlog went up yesterday – if you missed it, enjoy: This 3 minute video took me two days to finish because Windows Moviemaker is THE DEVIL. I should also mention I have...
Heroes and villains
The topic at hand this week is to do with heroes and villains, and what literary bad boys and girls we in the Fictionistas can’t do without. Before I get into that, yes, I...
Back in the Saddle
Catching up after a very busy week! I’ve been pulling couch duty working on my books for almost two years, and I kind of forgot what it was like to have to show up...