December 2011

I’m going to pick on two types of fictional invaders: zombies and aliens.  Zombies seem a lot more popular these days than aliens do, and I have a couple of guesses as to why. Zombies are people who become unpeople. They go from rational, emotional creatures who do not consume your resources to unthinking, unfeeling […]

Kindle for Kids is running a guest post of mine, “10 Horrible Things You Did Not Do This Year.” You know how every year, there’s some adult who think’s it’s oh-so-funny to ask whether or not you’ve been good? Here are 10 answers to give that will make you happy…and prove that you’ve been good.

I was restless all last week, not knowing what it was I was restless for, which happens to me sometimes. Now, when I get depressed, then I need to change something.  But when I get restless…I need something new.  Why it’s taken me so long to figure this out, I don’t know. What did I

Remember Joseph Gambit from RolePages?  I put up an interview with him last week…and now he has an interview with me up.  One of the job perks of being a writer–talking to awesome people.  

Adventure.  Spies.  Magic. New chapter book/middle-grade fantasy series inspired by…my daughter.  Bored with reading the chapter books available and with a mother who wasn’t going to take it anymore, she’s read the first three books in the series with relish, jumping up and down, and yelling about what was and wasn’t fair. The main character

Adventure.  Spies.  Magic. New chapter book/middle-grade fantasy series inspired by…my daughter.  Bored with reading the chapter books available and with a mother who wasn’t going to take it anymore, she’s read the first three books in the series with relish, jumping up and down, and yelling about what was and wasn’t fair. The main character

Adventure.  Spies.  Magic. New chapter book/middle-grade fantasy series inspired by…my daughter.  Bored with reading the chapter books available and with a mother who wasn’t going to take it anymore, she’s read the first three books in the series with relish, jumping up and down, and yelling about what was and wasn’t fair. The main character is

Interview with me at Great Minds Think Aloud: http://t.co/CZnu138f Plus giveaway 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools

Okay.  I have had to rethink my series on how to edit your ebooks.  One, I was getting down in the weeds with how to do grammar, rather than sticking to the grammar-related checklists I had originally envisioned.  Two, I’ve come to think of there being three real areas of formatting for indies:  POD, HTML

I was recently invited to exchange blogs with the creator of RolePages, Joseph Gambit.  RolePages is a…I don’t know that there’s a word for it.  Maybe there is.  An in-character place to game without the bother of rules, but with an overarching story arc.  It’s like stepping into a little multiverse, a text-based MMORPG.  A