Each year I like to introduce you to some new authors you may not have come across. These folks have led interesting and adventurous lives even before they became an author. This week I’d like for you to meet Amanda Caldwell and Valerie Gilbert. Okay, ladies! Hello! My name is Amanda Cadwell and I have… [Read more]
Each year I try to improve my craft. I love writing and understand that I can always do better. There are ideas I want to try, worlds I want to build, tips, tricks and short-cuts I need to find in order to help me produce the stories that dance around in my head in the… [Read more]
Do you ever give a gift to someone special in your life that makes you feel like you really didn’t try very hard to find just the right thing? Is it because they have everything or maybe possess a special talent that might defy a reasonable choice so you give up? Maybe you just grab… [Read more]
I promised I’d post part of the first chapter of my latest book, The Knight Before Chaos. This is #6 in the Enigma Series. Although there are always some funny parts in this series, the books read like an action adventure. However, this latest book is not only action packed, but laugh out loud funny…. [Read more]
I always hated taking a test. Thanks to my first-grade teacher, I now have unrealistic expectations of how I’m going to perform when a test is measuring my where with all. We took some kind of aptitude test. When the results came back, she lined up the kids who did very well on one side… [Read more]
What am I doing here at the beginning of autumn? I’ll be having surgery. Groan. I’m having a knee replacement. The really cool part is that they’re making it with a 3D Printer! Talk about space-age technology! I’m trying to pretend I’ll have a bionic knee like those six million dollar characters from eons ago…. [Read more]
There I was, twenty feet from the summit, my Sherpa smiling proudly knowing that all my dreams of being the first blonde, thriller-writer to make it to the top was about to come true. Then I made one wrong step. My feet slipped out from under me and down I went to crash my knee… [Read more]
I know you probably envision dead bodies laying all over the place about now. What I meant to say is, do you find a book series you love and attack it with passion and with such enthusiasm that you might commit a crime if someone interrupted you? Are you endanger of becoming a Dateline Episode?… [Read more]
Remember that Mega Giveaway I told you about? The contest is drawing to a close and it’s almost time to draw a winner. I would LOVE for you to be the grand prize winner, so you can spend your summer lounging around reading bestsellers while sipping sweet iced tea from your new Tales from Big… [Read more]