A Busy Month Ahead!

How do you like the deviled eyeballs my husband made for my daughter's Halloween party? Awesome, huh? I'd like to wish good luck to ...

Doctor Who?

My daughter Gabbey will be just plain awesome as the Eleventh Doctor this Halloween. I am darned impressed! Can't you just see her deliv...

Six Word Summary

Sometimes it pays to be brief. So, let’s see how many of my writing/blogging friends can summarize one of their works in six words ! The rul...

Spooktacular Giveaway Hop

Wanna win some prizes? This Halloween, there are literally hundreds up for grabs! I Am a Reader, Not a Writer and The Diary of a Bookworm ...

In Defense of Pantstering

While researching outlining and pantstering for an upcoming workshop, I discovered there are countless websites and blogs about outlining yo...

Gina Review: Bad Spelling

I have my 11 year old daughter Gina here today with a review of Bad Spelling * by Marva Dasef -- newly released from Muse It Up Publishing....

Newly Released: Bad Spelling

Last Friday the 14th -- just one day removed from Friday the 13th -- my friend Marva Dasef's new book Bad Spelling released from Muse I...

Living Oxymorons

As a writer, observing human behavior comes with the job, and sometimes, if you look at your experiences as “research,” it makes aggravating...

Blogs, Facebook, and Teenage Daughters

Some of you may notice I've given my blog a makeover. I liked the black slate with white text, but it gave me trouble every month with t...

Playing a Tough Room

Today, I have a guest post from my brother-in-law, Larry O'Donnell about his newest paying gig. Do you all remember the scene in The Blu...

First Impressions #25

Our third and final First Impression for the month of October is a YA Urban Fantasy called KNIGHTS OF AVALON by Melissa Barlow. A fencing ch...

First Impression #24

Our second First Impression for October is Michael DiGesu’s THE BLINDED GARDENER. It’s an edgy Y/A Contemporary about a seventeen-year-old b...

First Impression #23

Hello, October! Today, I’m bringing you a First Impression of teen writer Gabbi Calabrese’s YA paranormal WIP, UNVEILED. I was the first per...