Behind the Story: My Trip to Agnes Scott College

New Years weekend my husband and I went to Columbus, GA to visit family. Besides the AMAZING larp (live action role play) we attended run by S.O.L.A.R.  (I got to play an elven archer/bard=shoot people with foam-tipped arrows and entertain a tavern full of travelers...

Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations – FINISHED!

After many tweaks, additions, a last chapter, and an epilogue, I'm proud to announce my second book, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations is complete! It still has to go through my editor, of course, but the story is there, and I couldn't be happier. I finished it...

Adventure, Snarky Humor, and Free Stuff

  Don't they teach you in Being A Writer 101, don't quit your day job? Oops...well, I guess I missed that class, because I just put in my two week notice *pauses to let inner cheering fade*. This is so I can write full time in preparation to publish TWO books...

The Long Road Ahead: Publishers, Editors, and Cover Art

  I've decided to share an in-depth writing update this week (sorry Gizmo, your Thursday News columns aren't quite up to scratch...no pun intended). I've got two big projects going on, both of which are immensely exciting, and I've made significant progress this...

Milestones: The First Story I Ever Wrote

[update 1 yr later: having divided my efforts between this and my Lily Singers Series, which will be published April 2016, I am now 3/4 done with my urban fantasy novel draft and will done by the end of the year. If all goes well the novel will publish in spring 2017]...

Second Published Story CRT Anthology Christmas Greetings

Yesterday, I met with about 25 other members of the Cherokee Roundtable writing group at the estimable Don Ray's home to celebrate the release of our groups anthology, "Christmas Greetings" - a collection of short stories, poems, and plays with a Christmas theme. I...

First Published Story: Old Pearls

It's out!  My first story published, available online at: http://www.youngsalvationistmag.com/issues/2014_April/ Or you can visit youngsalvationist.com and navigate to their magazine online, the April issue. My story is titled "Old Pearls", and can be found on page...

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