Check out my most recent blog visit talking about Captive of the Cattle Baron. Beverley Bateman’s Blogging with Beverley now includes my detailed explanation of how to rewrite a scene to shift who instigates it, and why that can be a good idea. And there’s an excerpt, of course! (Or,…
I’m having fun answering questions on Nancy Lee Badger’s blog and there’s a new excerpt, too. Check these out and collect them all!
I’m touring blogs and explaining piecemeal my thoughts about writing Captive of the Cattle Baron. Check out Jackie Maurer’s blog for a brand new excerpt. This scene was completely rewritten after one of my beta readers told me why she hated it. Can you guess what I did?
Captive of the Cattle Baron is my twist on an old school romance cliché—the romantic abduction. It’s not a popular plot today and I’m glad. Times have changed, and our basic understanding of what constitutes unacceptable force—not to say abuse—has matured. I’ve read some very negative comments from readers when…
Of course it is. We who have read comic books and loved them have known forever that the literary world also is full of emperors with no clothes. I as a woman also recognize that far too many novels by male writers about men become or became the toast of…
A while back a friend of mine complained that s/he had been de-Friended by someone on Facebook, and didn’t know why. Facebook, like many Internet sites, provides a method by which you can e-mail a private message to someone, even if you are not officially Friends. There is also the…
“The beauty of a writer vs. an artist is that a writer tends to get better over time. More experiences and living equal more grist for the mill.” [Oh, dear. I no longer know who I am quoting. Sorry. If you are living, please identify yourself.] One of the issues…
Four months ago, when I thought winter couldn’t get any worse (boy, was I wrong), and there was snow all over the ground (but not the four feet of it that came later), I started writing a novel. Out of sheer boredom and frustration. I haven’t looked at it since,…
Recently, I completed a lengthy e-mail interview with Bryan Stroud for his The Silver Lantern site, which is dedicated to superhero comic books of the Silver Age, the 1960s. Bryan has posted interviews with a lot of people I know from the comic book biz, so I am happy to…
Sadly, my visit was several weeks too early. I went to a cold, rainy place for a week. I’m tired of visiting when the UK weather sucks. No more! I’m not coming back until it can be during some lovely summer weather. Or at least solidly, gently spring. Not the…
