Greetings and salutations bloggers, bloggettes, and bloggophiles (and the Freudian-slipped mistyped  bloogers )! I had sincerely believed ...

FLASH! COMPLETELY NEW NEWS! Not much time has passed since my last post, but here is something I must add! The anthology from Fantasy I...

Dear Decembrists (if you're offended, you can google the term ), I kept looking at the calendar this past week, day after day, feeli...

UPDATE (Dec. 3): Despite my assistance, my daughter placed 4th of 18 in her class of "engineering" students! (See below for detail...

'Tis the season of the infamous turkey!   This time a week hence, many will be slouching and slumping and snoring or snorting, content...

Congratulations, Danielle! not so breaking now BREAKING NEWS! Anyone near Troy, Alabama, stop in at the University B&N now 11-11-...

I have been getting emails and Tweets and Facebook messages (even a few Hallmark cards) asking me--indeed, beseeching me--to write another p...

Must be the Halloween effect...spooky things happening, such as...the school newspaper wants to interview me tomorrow, especially about me t...

ATTENTION!  MANY THANKS TO ALL THE "SCARY STORY CONTEST" ENTRANTS! THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED (as of midnight, of course) AND S...

October usually means a breath of cool air, colorful trees, and a welcome respite from the rigors of academia often dubbed "fall break...

Seasons change. Do they also change in your story? How does weather affect your characters? Or do they ignore it? Weather happens, but does ...

It's October and I feel some pressure to create the first post of the month. This post will be a brief history of my involvement with Ap...

It is September 29, 2011. Do know where your technology is? I have discovered that, beyond all reasonable expectations, it is possible t...

Moments ago I posted this on my Facebook page - yes, after finally getting back in! For some inexplicable reasons known probably only t...

It has come to my attention that not all blogs are created equal. Equality can never be assured if design templates are employed. Someone so...