In any story, plot is the spine, the various settings are its bones, conflict is its muscle, and characters are its flesh and beauty. Together, they…
What is it about fiction that takes your breath away? The characters? The plot? The conflicts? Perhaps it’s the secondary characters and their problems? Or the…
People often ask me how I name my characters. Do I put names in a hat and draw? Do I research the name’s meaning? Do I…
As you may have noticed from the previous shameless promotion, Blueberry Truth isn’t romance. No hot guys, no rip-the-sheets love scenes. Well, Beanie’s husband Mac is…
I guess we all know that an afternoon delight has been referred to as a quickie for years now. In the writing industry a quickie usually means…
…and then I heard another voice, masculine this time, deep, rich and precise. “When are you going to give me a story of my own?” I…
SBN: 1-60154-355-7 My first published novel was “Starquest’ (I know it’s a cliche, but it really is “the book of my heart’.) It started out as…
About eight years ago I began writing mystery novels. I thought it would be so easy, but guess what? I soon realized that writing, like everything…
