I had the great good fortune to get to interview author Rhys Ford right before the release of book 2 in her Cole McGinnis Mystery series, and lucky you, are going to get to hear all about her work and how she makes her magic! We jump...

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Categories: Author Interviews

Tags: Creative Process, Dirty Kiss, Dirty Secret, Dreamspinner, Gender, m/m romance, mystery, orientation, Rhys Ford, Romance, Sexual Content

Motherhood and Serious Writing

Posted on: 23 August 2012

I read this great interview on Motherhood and Writing and got inspired to talk about these things again. I really like what these ladies had to say about the role of the driven writer who puts all...

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Categories: Pontificating , Writing Process

Tags: Daily Writing Goals, Empathy, motherhood, Serious Writing, What Counts

Social Media is Useless to Writers?

Posted on: 10 August 2012

I’ve been feeling guilty about this summer break from blogging and then I read this article about how Twitter and Facebook don’t actually result in anything useful to...

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Categories: Pontificating , Writing Process

Tags: Community, Social Media, Writers

Using Poems like Donor Organs

Posted on: 11 July 2012

I’ve been writing novels for a bunch of years now and my creative process is always evolving. Oh wait, I have to get some tea and cookies. Yes, bribery is still part of my process! Ok, (slurp, crunch) so I’ve had this new...

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Categories: Writing Process

Tags: Frankenstein, Novel, Novel Writing, Poems, Poetry, Process

Great Author Interview Take-Aways

Posted on: 27 June 2012

I have been having so much fun doing this Author Interview series! Here are just a few of my favourite tidbits from this amazing experience that slid right into my own writing process or became inspiration within my own work! I’ve put links in to the original interviews so you can...

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Categories: Author Interviews