I’ve been reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books lately. But slowly. One at a time. Pausing in between books and making myself wait for at least a week before I dash off to the bookstore and buy the next. Oh, my God, they’re just like Doritos! Or is it Pringles? Anyway, you can’t read just […]

The third and final book in my Princes trilogy, The Serpent Prince, debuts in a little less than a week, so book series are on my mind at the moment. As an author, I love having the space of several books to arc out a character. A character might start as the hero’s sidekick, or […]

I have three dogs, and I know what you’re thinking—what a nutcase. I mean, who has three dogs? One dog is very respectable, two dogs can be contained at least, but tell anyone that you’ve got three canines and they know you’ve gone off the deep end of the pool of life and there’s not […]

Against my better judgement, my critique partner, Jade Lee, talked me into doing a book signing. The booksigning was at a local major chain bookstore and it was scheduled from 1:30 to 3:30 on a Saturday afternoon. Herewith is an actual, real time, chronological outline of events:
1:20 I arrive at the bookstore, cheerfully introduce […]

“I don’t think I could be a writer,” my Youngest said to me the other day.
My motherly instincts immediately went on the alert at the possibility that my offspring was putting herself down. “Oh, I think you’d be a fine writer!” I gushed.
“No,” said the child. “I can’t type fast.”
I blinked. “Writers […]

So, it turns out that my editor doesn’t like the title of my fourth book.
Sigh.
I was actually lucky with my first three books, The Raven Prince, The Leopard Prince, and The Serpent Prince (out in September,) because I got to keep the titles I’d chosen. I didn’t have to deal with trying to come […]

My eldest daughter is studying William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in school. Because I’m something of a Shakespeare geek, I decided to rent Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, which I’d never seen, for us both to watch.
And I fell in love.
In case you haven’t seen this over the top adaptation, Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet […]