In years gone by, clothing stores, makeup manufacturers and the like have only used models with those perfect bodies and skin to show us their products. How do you feel about this? Would you like to see “real” people in ads? I’ll admit that I’m not sure how I feel about this topic. On the…
It’s been some time since we chatted about our writing spaces and processes and we thought, “Why not bring this subject to the forefront again?” So, for the past few years I’ve wanted to update my office. It needs to be more user friendly and it needs to “feel” like a space I want to…
We’re chatting this week about author/reader events and who attends them. I’ve asked this question in the past and received various answers on the topic. I attend them because I like meeting readers. It’s difficult in this current publishing environment to meet readers who just might like my books. We are so flooded with new…
This week we’re talking about Valentine’s Day and not in the usual way. We decided to chat about what some of the difficulties about this time of year. So, as weird as it seems, Valentine’s Day isn’t my favorite time of year. It seems a contrived way to have to spend money on candy and…
We’ve been tabulating results and here’s what we found from last week’s survey about book covers. Overall 56 people took a moment to respond and I’m very grateful to those of you did. Even though this was a super un-scientific poll, I did glean information from it. Question 1. What is your first reaction to…
We’re surveying our readers to see what they have to say about a bunch of things and this week I’m surveying about book covers. So I posted a survey about book covers on my Facebook page and in my newsletter. Let me know what you think. Here are the questions for you to see, and…
We’re sharing travel experiences or anticdotes with you today. I like talking about travel. I like traveling, well if its for fun. Traveling for business isn’t as entertaining or relaxing as pleasure travel, so, there’s that. By now you know when we travel, its usually on a motorcycle or two and usually packing is done…
We’re chatting today about the parallels between our writing and our real lives. They say write what you know and you’ll be fine. There’s a lot of truth to that. When we write what we know, we speak from experience and the feeling that needs to be associated with our stories comes through. Not so…
This week’s topic is to review a book you’ve recently read. I’ve finally set aside time a few days per week to get back to the very thing that brought me to writing – reading. And thanks to the recommendation from an author I follow’s newsletter, I found Shelly Thacker. Granted I write contemporary, but…
This week we’re sharing our top 10 of Movies and Books. This is always a hard one for me because there are so many and I usually forget some of the movies and/or books I love. But, let’s give it a try. Movies: 1: Still my number one movie of all time is The Sixth…
In years gone by, clothing stores, makeup manufacturers and the like have only used models with those perfect bodies and skin to show us their products. How do you feel about this? Would you like to see “real” people in ads? I’ll admit that I’m not sure how I feel about this topic. On the…
