Here I am, week two of the #LifeBooksWriting challenge, and today’s topic is a bullseye. Straight into the center of my very being, who I am, what I strived for most of my life. If you’ve heard this tune before, bear with me, please. Books are the most important material possessions I ever knew as…
It’s Sunday, the last day of January, and I’ve missed my every-five-day posting deadline. By one day. Please forgive this since I thought about including the final six questions in the calendar of questions in one final post. February will be about sharing news from reviewers, readers, writing more posts about creativity, the process, and…
Here is the fifth blog post of the new year and I’m sticking to my new year’s resolution . . . a bit late in the day on Monday, but better late than never, right? Okay, so, five more questions in the list appear and I’m all set to answer them for your reading pleasure.…
Continuing to delve into Wake Me Up in a variety of specific and observational ways, I hope you’re enjoying these “background” questions and answers about my first literary crime novel. This set of five questions deal with the senses involved in the book, from sights, scene setting, to sounds, scents, tastes, and touch/textures involved in…
As this new year begins, I question what really happened in 2015 with a heavy sigh. So many ups and downs of a smallish nature, some happy and bewildering moments mixed in with incredible disappointment, news of sadness, illness, the passing of the well-known and those alone, family and friends, close and acquaintances. Keep a…
“Miss Jane Neal met her maker in the early morning mist of Thanksgiving Sunday. It was pretty much a surprise all round. Miss Neal’s was not a natural death, unless you’re of the belief everything happens as it’s supposed to. If so, for her seventy-six years Jane Neal had been walking toward this final moment…
Well, the incredible writing journey I am on continues. I remember driving down to Seattle with fellow Young Adult author Stacey R. Campbell, who wrote the fun “lost royal princess” mystery titled Hush, with a list of bookstores to visit. The very first on our list was University Book Store in Seattle, the largest independent…
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 in the middle so that the characters could reflect backwards in time and bring readers to this present moment. This section didn’t…
The writing life is a long and winding road, for most, and I include myself in this curvy path. The voices of my fictional characters reverberate in my head, what they want to show me, where they want to take me, and I try to listen. Even doing mundane chores, I can’t shut off thoughts…
Look out for Sugarbeat’s Books new Top 10 Romance Novels of 2012 . . . Coming Soon! Today, it’s a special treat to introduce to A Writer’s Life Blog, my good friend Barb Drozdowich, aka Sugarbeat. Her thoughts on the books she reads can be found at Sugarbeat’s Books. In her spare time, Barb helps steer…