Right on the heels of my last blog post comes the latest announcement by the folks at Amazon about the results thus far of their Amazon Brea...

Last week I got a bit obsessed with Description ...the whole idea of lining up adjectives to explain to someone else what I was referring to...

I've  recently  learned that people prefer blog posts that have a  provocative graphic and are short. http://www.amazon.com/After-Ili...

With apologies to George Lucas, I have been felled by the least important, least noticeable object in the universe. A mere dot on the back ...

Once upon a time there was a book called AFTER ILIUM that was not too happy sitting on a shelf , waiting to be discovered. That was common...

With the start of a new year the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards is once again open!   Among my writer colleagues, impressions of this e...

It was not actually supposed to happen. Not in this lifetime, anyway. My mother read my book! Freshly out in the marketplace, my novel ...

It is that time of year once more, the season of the contest! The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards ! I did it last year, on a whim. My bo...

Good Morning and Happy New Year!  The world did not end! No, wait. That's this year. Never mind. Many New Year's Resolutions are...

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...