2018 Changes and Plans

Do you make resolutions, goals, or set up projects for the New Year? Personally, I've found that all three have merit. As people we make resolutions all the time. Really? Yep, we sure do. Remember being a kid and saying, "I don't like Brussel Sprouts, I will not eat them, you cannot make me." Sounds [...]

NaNoWriMo and November Instagram Wrap-up

This NaNoWriMo I tried writing in the genre of Fantasy. I hadn't done that since 2008! It was fun to stretch my writing legs and do a new thing. Did you do NaNoWrimo this year? If so what did you write? If not join us for CampWriMo in April! Here is a round up of [...]

October: Writers on Instagram Photo Challenge Week 3 #igwritersoct

This is week three of the #igwritersoct photo challenge on Instagram. This challenge has been fun and we are in the last days as week four begins today. I am looking forward to the challenge for November and NaNoWriMo. I will be posting my NaNo Instagram Photo Challenge at the end of this week so [...]

October: Writers on Instagram Photo Challenge Week 2 #igwritersoct

This is week two of the #igwritersoct photo challenge on Instagram. So far I've enjoyed the challenge. I have missed 2 days (oopsie),but I did get to see my son and his family who traveled all the way from California and I also joined my local United Methodist Church. Those kinds of things are important [...]

October: Writers on Instagram Photo Challenge #igwritersoct

This is week one of the #igwritersoct photo challenge on Instagram. I love photo challenges! This is a new discovery for me too. I like having a plan for the month when it comes to social media. So I plan to do one for each month of the last quarter of 2017. Instagram Writers October [...]

Family is, as Family does.

This is what family does. For my part in LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION, The Dangerous Client, is the work I am most proud of, and I don't make a single dime from it sale. Nancy Hansen says it better than I can. Buying a copy of this anthology helps one of my dear friends,Tommy Hancock, [...]

4 Steps to Salvage the Day

Some days suck. Things break. People let you down. Traffic. It is high time we as writers (most with day/night jobs to pay the bills) need to let ourselves off the hook for things we cannot control. Now that isn't the same thing as noticing the maintenance light on the dash of your car has [...]

Dreaming of Your Writing Career?

There are two camps of thought in the prevailing winds about writing and writers. #1 says if you think you want to be a writer you probably aren't going to be very good at it, because if you have to “think” about writing as a career then you have already missed the point. #2 says [...]

6-Steps to Superhero!

Have you always wished you could be a superhero and save the day? Well let me tell you that unless you have a run in with radioactive particles, beams, spiders or some other type of cosmic anomaly the world will tell you to rethink that calling...But do you? I say you too can be a superhero, and [...]

Interview with Laura V. Hilton and Cindy Loven– Swept Away: Quilts of Love Series

Award winning author, Laura Hilton, her husband, Steve, and their five children make their home in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas. She is a pastor's wife, a stay-at-home mom and home-schools three of her children. Her two oldest children are homeschool graduates and are in college. Cindy is lifelong reader, and it has always been her dream [...]