My first eBook, Sandcastle and Other Stories, has just been published at Amazon, and the response I am receiving is very energizing and humbling at the same time. I hope everyone reading the...
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I finished writing Wake Me Up and was ready to publish it in 2011 . . . When I reread the book for the fiftieth time, I realized the opening needed to begin...
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The inspiration driving this tale was to use only one setting: a beach. And the challenge I set myself was to give Sandcastle a twist that would be so shocking that a reader...
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The prolific author and social media talent, Rachel Thompson, wrote about her next big thing, a book called Broken Pieces, as part of an ongoing series on the current Work In Progress ....
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When I read a story or a novel and I enter its created world completely — with no outer distractions, and this mobile life we’re all living in tends to distract...
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The chill of finishing a great mystery is in my bones. And it’s a very good thing Kipling can’t get to them with her tiny puppy-teeth! Kiplings’s first snow experience…traversing the...
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Formulating ideas from my inner castle keep. This is a castle in Werfen, Austria that was used in the old Clint Eastwood film, Where Eagles Dare. There was a Birds of Prey show...
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Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don’t you think? I caught a showing of the classic suspense film The Bad Seed this past Halloween week on TCM the other night. There were no commercial ads...
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