November 1, 2025 For a long time now, each November, I've rustled up my intention and concentrated on writing every day of the month - no slacking. The whole thing started with Chris Baty and a thing called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) back in 1999. But a few years ago, the organization fell on hard times and was forced to disband. But that doesn't mean that the writers of the world stopped doing their thing in November. We kept going, splintering into smaller

September 2025 Since I was a youngster, community service has always been important to me. Over the years, I've served families in crisis...

September 2025 We say it all the time, "Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover." But the problem is, it's human nature to make decisions about...

August 2025 I recently added three new writing resource books to my collection. 😊 For more than five decades, I've used writing craft...

April 2025 When I initially began writing Tears Remember , my paranormal novel, I had a brilliant understanding of the organization of...

April 2025 Drake and I met with our editor, Kalli Connor, a few weeks ago, and since then we've put a lot of work into our paranormal...

December 2019 There’s a lively discussion that surrounds the choice to use a pen name or not.   Some authors swear by them, others don’t...

December 2019 National Novel Writing Month is over, and those who participated and "won" now have a first draft of their book sitting...

July 2020 Yesterday, I released three books into the wild, in a fun Book Scavenger Hunt game I discovered.  I thought today, I should...

July 2021 For the past week, I’ve been on a Writing Hermitage at our cabin in northern, lower Michigan.  My husband and I acquired this...

January 2019 It was an interesting eighteen months at The Grey Wolfe Scriptorium; filled will joy, chaos, and good friends.  I learned a...

January 2019 I love the English language. It is by far my favorite thing about having a brain. It is my soap box when I am feeling...

January 2019 When I was a youngster, in our utility room pantry lived an old five-pound coffee can filled about three-quarters of the way...

December 2019 It was near midnight on a night in late December.  The madness of the holiday season was nearly over... just the ball drop...

June 2020 An observation from my writing desk while perusing writing forums on the Internet… It seems to me that many writers are engaged...

March 2021 After spending the past few days nearly suffocated in the news that Dr. Seuss Enterprises (a foundation that I thought was...

October 2021 Since I published my first book in 1993, I've been confused about the return policy our industry seems to accept.  Now,...

November 2021 This morning, in one of the Facebook groups I follow, I saw a post, reminding authors about the (primarily monetary) risks...

December 2021 I've been working on the new edition of my romance novel, A Tryst of Fate , lately.  I'm tightening the prose, reformatting...

January 2022 For any who take the time to get to know us, they will find that Community Service work is extremely important to Drake (my...