Sometimes I think there’s too much information these days. It’s a good thing that it’s at our fingertips, but winnowing out the wheat from the chaff is the hard part. When I started writing to sell some twenty-one years ago, writing historical fiction at the time, I researched what I could. But it was no … Read more
An embarrassment of riches, I suppose it could be called. Having two series going at once. That’s where I am now. My publisher “paused” both these series, and says they want to publish more. Eventually. But I decided that dealing with publishers right now was pretty much over. Nice people, they mean well, but have … Read more
Truth Time: Have you ever eaten a hamburger that remotely resembled the one on the billboard or the TV commercial? Me neither. It’s easy to recognize obvious distortion. (And sad that we have come to accept the practice, but that’s a discussion for another day.) What’s more challenging is to catch the subtle ways in … Read more