Today’s news post on Dear Author had a link to a blog post about literary fiction (lit fic) and how lit fic readers don’t want to read on e-readers–they want want physical books. http://www.davidhewson.com/blog/2012/8/8/ebooks-is-it-a-genre-thing-definitely.html But the topic of this post isn’t about lit fic and what lit fic readers will and won’t read on, since … Read more

All my writing efforts of the last few weeks have been spent on revising and rewriting my first finished novel.  And boy, does it need it.  Just as this WIP was my first real effort at writing a novel, these revisions are my first real effort at revising a novel.  In the process, I’m finding … Read more

The past few months I’ve let my writing fall by the wayside.  I did finish a very rough first draft of my first novel, and I had every intention of revising it, but somehow, life got in the way.  You know, kids, working two part time jobs, keeping up with the house, pregnancy #3, blah … Read more

I know you can’t see me, but be assured that I am hanging my head in shame.  Not only have I not been keeping up with writing on the blog, I also haven’t been writing at ALL.  Not a single, solitary word in my WIP.  I was doing so well with my daily word counts … Read more

First off, I wrote a guest review of Kaki Warner’s Heartbreak Creek for The Good, the Bad, and the Unread.  You can find it here.  And go buy all of Kaki Warner’s books, right now.  I’ll wait. I realize I’m not updating regularly like I should be, but I recently got a new job, so … Read more