How Do I Feel After the First Week of School?

Hopefully, this picture says it all, because I'm afraid I don't have anything else for you today. (I'm the coyote.) I'm sorr...

PAYA 2012

This past Saturday, I attended the third annual book festival organized by Pennsylvanian teenager Skyanne Fisher – Bring YA to PA , otherwis...

Cover Reveal for THE CAGED GRAVES!

No, not here! If you want to see my beautiful-enough-to-make-me-cry cover for THE CAGED GRAVES, head on over to Icey Books . There's a g...

Cover Reveal for SPIRIT WORLD and More!

It was only a couple months ago that I announced the sale of my critique partner Krystalyn Drown 's YA paranormal romance, SPIRIT WORLD ...

The F13 Button

Has this ever happened to you? You’re at work or at a party. Someone asks you about your writing and then quickly follows up with: “Can you ...

Nine Months to Go

A listing for The Caged Graves went up on Amazon at the beginning of this month.  The release date is set for May 14, 2013.  That’s nine mon...

Summer Goals Assessment 2012

No. 9 Mine in Lansford, PA Today is the last day of my summer vacation. Tomorrow will be my first day of teacher in-service, and next Monday...

A Tourist in Mexico

This is the last post about Mexico – I promise!  But I’ve told you what the trip did for me as a writer, I marveled at the history, and now ...

A Historical Look at Teotihuacan

The Aztecs named this Avenue of the Dead, mistaking the temples for tombs.  A lot of people mistake Teotihuacan as an Aztec site. In fact, t...

A Writer Looks at Teotihuacan

Yes, that's me standing on some rocks next to a plastic construction fence. Of course, the rocks and fence are located here: That’s the ...

The Danger of Re-Writing History

Today I have a guest post from my brother-in-law, Larry O'Donnell about re-writing history.  Larry tells me he started this post during ...

Linda Grimes In a Fix!

Today I've got the delightfully humorous Linda Grimes here to talk about her debut novel, releasing next month -- IN A FIX. I am really ...

First Impressions: PLENG'S SONG

Today, our first page comes from Patrick Maher, whose book PLENG’S SONG has already been published to some acclaim and is popular with stude...

First Impressions: THE DESIREE

Our second First Impressions post comes from PK Hrezo, and it is a revised first page for her manuscript THE DESIREE.  A couple months ago, ...

First Impressions: THE JADE COTERIE

Our First Impressions post today comes from Summer Ross. This is the first page of her adult fantasy, THE JADE COTERIE. Ebony Graves slippe...