I’m back! I missed everybody! Hope everyone has had a good last week and a half. :) I’ll start back with a double-edition of Twitterific—below are all my tweets from the last two [...]

Hi everyone! This is the time of year when I take a short blogcation in order to catch up with family, host guests, etc. I’m also spending some time revising that book that [...]

Thanks for hosting me here at Mystery Writing is Murder, Elizabeth! My recently released Home Crafting Mystery, Wined and Died, is the fifth in the series. All of my contemporary cozies feature colonial [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity lately. This is probably because it’s summertime and my schedule is pretty much non-existent. I’m getting work done every day, but it’s not at the same [...]

Please join me in welcoming my friend Karen Walker to the blog. I love visiting Karen’s blog, Following the Whispers, because it’s a quiet oasis in my busy day. She helps me to [...]

Below are writing links that I’ve posted to Twitter in the past week. Hope you’ll enter this month’s WKB giveaway for a chance to win Donald Maass’ excellent Writing the Breakout Novel, from [...]

I mentioned last week that I was preparing two books to e-publish. I wrote one of the books three years ago. The other is a book I wrote five years ago. The book [...]

Today I’m at the Writers in the Storm blog (a great resource for writers, if you haven’t visited), talking a little about book middles. Middles can be tough—not only is it where our [...]

In 1939 sociologist Edwin Sutherland coined the term “white collar crime.” He wrote, “White collar crime is crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his [...]

My writing friend Jody Hedlund has an interesting post today on being flexible. Traditionally, I’ve not been the most flexible person, internally What that means is that, if I’m volunteering for you at [...]

Sometimes I put things off. There are many different kinds of things I put off. Replying to emails.  Making a doctor’s appointment for a family member.  Writing a particular scene in a book. [...]

I mentioned during my post on outlining, that I’d found that the outlining process tended to flatten my characters out. I’d had to fluff them up later, during revisions. So I got a [...]

Below are writing links that I’ve posted to Twitter in the past week. Hope you’ll enter this month’s WKB giveaway for a chance to win Donald Maass’ excellent Writing the Breakout Novel, from [...]

Writers usually fall into one of two camps—outliners and writers who make the story up as they go along (seat of their pants.) I’m decidedly a pantster. It’s how I wrote my first [...]

I had an email recently from a writer who was worried that his word count was too low for his genre. I sent him a link to some information that I hoped would [...]

When I’m meeting people for the first time as a mom and a writer, I invariably get the question, “Aren’t your children just so proud of you?” I don’t ever hesitate when answering. [...]

It’s a good thing my guest post today was only 5 easy questions! I think my brain is still a little fried from my blog tour. :)  Hope you’ll pop over to Jill [...]

I’m probably not the easiest friend to have. That’s because I really don’t enjoy going out. Honestly, if it weren’t for my children and their plethora of activities (and multitudinous errands), I’d probably [...]

Happy 4th of July to my friends in the States (and Happy Monday to everyone else!) :) Hope everyone has a great day.  I think I’ve got some fireworks fatigue (late night last [...]

Below are writing links that I’ve posted to Twitter in the past week. Hope you’ll enter this month’s WKB giveaway for a chance to win the “Butt-in-Chair” writer productivity eBook by Jennifer Blanchard. [...]

I’m doing something a little different today, since it’s the July 4th weekend here in the States. I’ve tweeted some writing worksheets I came across lately and they received good play on Twitter. [...]

I left Mississippi a day early. I thought I could get ahead of the approaching monster storm, but instead I found myself driving through Alabama between tornadoes. I knew the road well; my [...]