"This is Us" and Me is Mad!
I don’t watch a lot of television. Having said that, I will admit I have had a run lately on good quality shows – Poldark, When Calls the...
That darn duck . . . er, goose!
A writer never knows when a character will pop onto the page and steal the scene. One such character was Grayson Cayle in Keeping...
Vintage Recipe or Washington Scandal? Watergate Salad
Apparently, I have been using the term “vintage” wrong. It applies to something that was in popular vogue in the past, went into a period...
Throwback Thursday: To Be or not to Be an American
When, in the course of human events, did one nation infiltrate another and then seek to subvert the very culture of that country they...
Toolbox Tuesday: Bunnies Hop, Books Do Not
Bunnies hop. Feet hop on hot pavement. Toddlers can hop and hop and hop . . . Dr. Seuss likes to “hop on Pop.” But readers should not be...
The Lumberjacks' Ball, by Carrie Fancett Pagels
Blurb from Amazon. A decade after surviving a brutal attack, a mercantile owner’s daughter begins her life anew in Michigan’s Upper...
Toolbox Tuesday: Creating Characters
This week for Toolbox Tuesday we are going to switch from prose to content, specifically characters. After all, characters are an...
Birth Control? Not So Much . . .
It’s really hard being a historical writer. We work for hours, sometimes years, learning as much as we can about the period we are...
Thornless Thursday: Author Kristen Heitzmann
Books are like roses. They are oftentimes pretty on the outside, but those thorns (graphic sex scenes) can be larger or smaller to a...
Toolbox Tuesday: Unnecessary Words, Part One: Redundancy
When I finished my first novel, Keeping Secrets, it came in at a whopping 180,000 words. Of course, that was way way way too long. It was...
