Six Sentence Sunday (Jan 29)

Welcome, Sixers! Thanks for stopping by--it's so good to see you all :) We pick up where we left off: Alexia's boyfriend, Dan, is sh...

Sweet Saturday Sample (Jan 28)

Another Sweet Saturday Sample !  The novel I'm sharing from, RESTORING EXPERIENCE, is Women's / Literary Fiction, and it's ratin...

Awesome Awardee--Me!

Jennifer Burke, over at Jen's Bookshelf, gave me an award--the Kreativ Blogger ! See how cool it is? Innit totally awesome? I get to sha...

Write 1, Sub 1--Jan Week 3

Ouch. Only three weeks into the challenge and I already failed. For the past three weeks I've been rushing to revise the MS I'll be ...

Six Sentence Sunday (Jan 22)

Thanks for stopping by today--hope you're having a great Six Sentence Sunday! Here's this week's snippet for you, a bit further ...

Sweet Saturday Sample (Jan 21)

This is my first time at Sweet Saturday Sample , and I'm excited! I hope you enjoy the sample I've chosen to share today from my soo...

Letter to Apollo

Apollo, you're a genius. I don't mean just because of your typing skills--impressive, dawg!--or even because of your amazing mastery...

The Holstee Manifesto (aka Inspiration Blues Fixer)

Write 1, Sub 1--Jan Week 2

The second week of the year and I managed to a) write another short piece (1,033 words) and b) submit that same piece   to Muscle & Bloo...

The Life of Books (When You're Not Looking)

Fantastic video I found on the She Reads blog  yesterday!

Six Sentence Sunday (Jan 15)

Middle of January already, people--where is the year going????  I do hope it's a great one for you so far. Another Six Sentence snippet...

A Simple Man & A Complex Woman (The Dushi Ode)

Dushi, happy birthday.  This is probably not the kind of birthday "card" you expected, is it?  You're not a public kind of man...

Write 1, Sub 1--Jan Week 1

I signed up for the Write1Sub1 challenge in 2012--weekly.  That means that, in Bradbury tradition, I must write one new short story every we...

How Far Would YOU Go To Be A Best-Selling Author?

Someone comes up to you and asks: "So.  You want to be a bestselling author, eh?  Oh--sorry, a Pulitzer winner?" *Insert yourself ...

Six Sentence Sunday (Jan 7)

And... My first Six Sunday post of the year!  My apologies to everyone that dropped in last week and didn't find an SSS excerpt--someho...

2011--The Year Everything Changed

For me, at least.  2011 was a year of flux, of upheaval, more internal than external.  It was a breaking point of sorts--I realized life is ...