A little inspiration... (Ira Glass)

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...