It's Too Yummy Tuesday! On select Tuesdays I share delicious recipes either inspired by my books or that are just plain delicious! One of my favorite tools in the kitchen is my crockpot. Year round, I use it to make soups, chili, pulled pork, chicken, and I've even made chocolate cake! Fall is a prime time for me to...

Part of a series of Weird Writing Tips that have helped me craft that wacky thing we call "fiction". Talk to Yourself Last week's tip dove into what some might consider hippy-dippy territory, discussing the art of Feng Shui as a method of improving the flow of creative energy. I'm headed back to that "out there"...

~~Warning: Mature themes~~ On Sundays, I share tidbits of my works in progress as part of Weekend Warrior’s 8-Sentence Sunday.   Still no title for my Yule story, the first in a series of short stories based around eight sons of Herne, pagan gods appointed to oversee the sabbats. Last week, Dominus...

It's Too Yummy Tuesday! On select Tuesdays I share delicious recipes either inspired by my books or that are just plain delicious! The past couple of weeks I've posted recipes involving several steps and quite a few ingredients, not to mention more sugar than I normally eat these days. So today I thought I'd change...

Part of a series of Weird Writing Tips that have helped me craft that wacky thing we call "fiction". Move Your Chair I've been talking to a writer friend of mine a lot lately about our processes, including our little rituals and the locations that help us get words onto the page. During one such chat, I realized...

~~Warning: Mature themes~~ On Sundays, I share tidbits of my works in progress as part of Weekend Warrior’s 8-Sentence Sunday.   This week, I'm still working on my Sons of Herne series, which will be a set of short fantasy tales focused around the eight pagan sabbats and the seductive gods appointed...

It's Too Yummy Tuesday! On select Tuesdays I share delicious recipes either inspired by my books or that are just plain delicious! Last week, I shared a recipe for cheesecake that I made for my husband's birthday. I had half a package of cream cheese plus half a can of cherry pie filling left over, and I wanted to...

The fourth in a series of Weird Writing Tips that have helped me craft that wacky thing we call "fiction". Don't Name The Thing I got to thinking about this tip the other day after helping a friend with a college English assignment. Her teacher gave feedback about not "telling" the story--in other words, the...

~~Warning: Mature themes~~ On Sundays, I share tidbits of my works in progress as part of Weekend Warrior’s 8-Sentence Sunday.   I know I left some readers (and myself) wondering last week how the hero of Bound to Her Master would perform during the slave games. However, I've had to put that...

It's Too Yummy Tuesday! On select Tuesdays I share delicious recipes either inspired by my books or that are just plain delicious! My husband's birthday is this week (today, in fact), and we celebrated early since I had the weekend off from work. Since he's not a big "cake" fanatic, I made him his favorite dessert--cheesecake....

The third in a series where I will be dropping some Weird Writing Tips that have helped me over fifteen years or so of pounding out fiction. Edit Backwards This gem of a tip is one I learned about some years ago when I was editing for a small publisher. It really helps fish out some awkward prose and small mistakes. Typically...