Something to keep the juices flowing.
I want to see these movies!
Steinbeck vs. Hemingway on Writing
Steinbeck: Hemingway: Perhaps this is nothing but the pantster vs. (sort of) plotter approach, but I think it goes deeper than that. What do...
Oh, you grammar Nazis, you...
I'm one. I admit it. I'm even proud of it. (Yeah, I taught English for ten years.) I hate it when people misuse punctuation. Missp...
Magical Realism Meets Disenchanted Science
I'm excited. My writer friend Edith Parzefall just released her second novel, Crumple Zone , a story of psychological suspense pub...
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Found this via Janet Reid 's blog this morning--thank you, Janet! Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coates shares tweets on storyteller wisdo...
On child marriage--beyond the horror to understanding
The height of mental pleasure: to have my paradigms shifted. To feel the ground shake under my unshakeable convictions of right and wrong. T...
Florence Cassez, Freed
Ms. Florence Cassez, the French girl accused, incarcerated, found guilty, and sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for kidnapping, was ...
I'm an author! (On Goodreads)
Thanks to Pure Slush and GORGE: A Novel in Stories , I now have an author page on Goodreads . How cool is that? :D Can't wait for my fi...
Fail-Safe Cure for Depression
Feeling blue? Find one of these to hug, play with, or even just watch sleep. Guaranteed rise in serotonin levels :) These puppies are part o...
Copycat
The awesome editor at Pure Slush invited me to be their featured author this January. What does that mean, exactly? Well, I needed to provi...
My three copies of GORGE arrived!
I'm in bliss :) Writer heaven. Literary nirvana. You can get a copy through Lulu.com : "a novel in stories, 33 writers weave sto...