An Honest Assessment of Blank Pages

This is the strangest blank page I’ve seen in a decade. This is, without question, the strangest year of the...

All Things New

What's New? Well, Just About Everything... While I’m out getting a new house in a new state with a semi-new...
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Halloween Checklist

If Halloween has checklist, my boxes are filled: Old house on hill—√ Ghostly presence residing in house—√ Novels that include ghosts, psychics,...
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Psychic Presents

Random psychic, Norwalk, CT The other day, I spoke to a psychic. Card-carrying, bona fide. I...
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The Windfall of Publicity

My agent once told me, “You’ll succeed in this business in one of two ways: Your publisher will put a...

About That Tantrum…

Recently, I had a Facebook tantrum—the envy of any two-year-old. My fit was sparked by a reviewer whose words about...
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The Next Yellow Line

Number of published words in 2.5 years: 469,030. Hours at my desk? Impossible to calculate, and if sitting truly is...
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The Unlikeliness of Today

And Other Amazing Things Note: Posting a personal blog five days before your book launch is not a great marketing...
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How Far Will Readers Reach?

This post ponders how far readers are willing to go. I might not have touched this topic when Foretold was...
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Great Stories Giveaway, Point of Entry!

  If Twitter is your cuppa, here's a ready-made tweet: Enter the GREAT STORIES GIVEAWAY: https://goo.gl/V4kH5r 12 Signed Books, 1...