Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
Yesterday the family and I took a little trip to Annapolis Royale on the north shore of Nova Scotia. It’s a 1 and 1/2 hour drive straight across the mainland, through woodland and past signs warning drivers to look out […]
I apologize profusely for not blogging for a couple of weeks.It’s been a combination of sudden frenetic busyness in my world and a lack of very much to say. And I’ve been working on my WIP.Yes, the same old one […]
I was saddened to hear yesterday that Eva Ibbotson had died. She was 85. I’ve mentioned before that she was a great influence on me, both as a writer and as a gracious and generous person. I wrote to her […]
Do any of you know who Imogen Poots is? She is a ravishing, doe-eyed gazelle of a British actress known mostly for being gorgeous and appearing in the movie 28 Weeks Later. Here she is: She got me thinking or […]
Regarding the difficulty besetting a writer who must deliver a second book to her publisher. You may think that writers are spilling over with new stories all the time.That it is merely a matter of writing them down.Not so.I have […]
I’m sure that for many of you writers this is not a difficulty. Perhaps you are masters of the detailed outline. Perhaps the whole book appears to you in a wonderfully clear dream.Perhaps you are one of those people who […]
I wouldn’t say precisely that I am on the hunt for new blog followers. I like the ones I have just fine. We are familiar with each other. We are loyal. We enjoy each others companyBUTI do have a new […]
Come in! (*pats couch invitingly*) I’ve been doing the blog for a while now and I’d love to know more about the people who visit/lurk/comment and why you do. I thought it was time for us to get to know […]
I belonged to a writing group for about 5 years. It was wonderful (and I wrote my first published book there) but writing groups evolve. People come, people go, the focus changes. It started out as fiction and memoir, enjoyed […]
One of my friends told me shortly after our sons were born that she had looked into his face after a long and arduous labor and had felt nothing. She said it in a very matter-of-fact way, (she had given […]