Just Write
In a few weeks, I’m launching my next book in the UltraSecurity Series: Dama X. It’s been three years since my first book, A Surefire Way, released and over a year since I wrote an UltraSecurity short story for an…
Will the Real Aztec Gods Please Stand Up?
In A Surefire Way, my heroes have to contend with and battle Aztec gods. For more on this comic, check out Wikipedia. One of the reasons I wanted to write about transhumans (humans with extraordinary abilities) is so I can…
How I Plot and Research—Therefore … But …
While Dama X, the second UltraSecurity book, is with my editor, I've been researching TimeTrap's story—tentatively titled, Mistress of Alternate Routes. I'm a bit nervous to tell her tale since she has a master's degree in physics and knows a…
Alan Rickman—What Might Be Possible
He could've read the dictionary to me and it would've been compelling. He was taken way too soon. A swoonworthy Rickman scene from Sense and Sensibility in memory of one of my favorite actors: Stories were better with you in…
Romance on the Rocks Post—Genre Lover
http://romanceontherocks.com/2016/01/genre-lover-what-i-learn-from-tarentino-movies/
2016–The Year of Writing
Little late on this blog post because I spent this weekend inputting edits on Dama X from my critique partners. I'm so close to getting this much delayed story published that I can barely contain my excitement. Tom Hiddleston sums…
Essays for Whedonites from PopMatters
Attention Whedonites! After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon’s Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse has just been published on Kindle by PopMatters. Included in this book is A Whedonite's Guide to Characterization, an essay from authors J.T.…
With a Little Help from My Friends (or How I Survive NaNo)
Last week, my fellow Romance on the Rocks blogger and author, Michelle Ingrid, wrote about participating in NaNo and the power of words in her personal and writing lives. She inspired me to talk ab… Source: With a Little Help…