Ever feel that little snake of jealousy slither into your consciousness? I think it’s something we all have to deal with again and again and

Writers know all about waiting. ALL about it. We write a story and submit it. We accumulate rejections. Finally, our agent sells a story and

Y’all know how much fun contests are. Well, this has been a delightful week for my books. Today, I learned that Sailing out of Darkness

I talk about words skittering off the page over at Southern Writers Magazine today. I hope you’ll visit and let me know how you find

I know you’ll forgive me for the blog silence when I explain that I’ve been just a little busy. Some of you will have seen
I’ve had a lovely time as Executive Editor of Wayside Press, the general market imprint of Written World Communications, but it’s time to hang up
Traditionally published (many times over) author Sue Grafton created a furor in an interview on August 7 in which she disparaged self-publishing and called self-pubbed

Reeling from sticker shock a few days ago when a lovely web designer sent me a quote for design and maintenance of a website, I
A long time ago, in pre-Internet / pre-social media days, my eyes were still young and too often turned inward. (Fine, sometimes they
It appears that, when I upgraded Writing on Board from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, I made both blog-post pictures and people vanish into cyberspace. If, by