• Blood Winter–you can order it now!

    Yes! There is a fourth book coming in the Horngate Witches series. It’s titled Blood Winter and it is already available for pre-order. I would love it if you did pre-order. It would make my editor so happy and possibly…

  • If

    If you are planning to come look at and possibly buy our house, please come soon. It’s very clean right now. I have kids. It will not last.

  • At last

    The block is now over. I have grading, but I’m mostly done until the next class. Yesterday we put the house on the market again. Tomorrow we have showing. Whoohoo! I hope something comes of it. I’m a little shocked.…

  • point of view

    I’ve got a post up on Magical Words talking about Point of View and how to choose which one might work best for you. I typically write in third person point of view for my novels, which, in the case…

  • anybody seen my lungs?

    I’m in the land of the hack/cough so hard it makes me want to throw up and I swear I keep losing my lungs. They just fly out of my head and get all lint and dog-hair covered, which is…

  • I shall visit upon them plagues and horrors

    Isn’t it funny how when you’re sick, you want to make everybody else miserable? And since the only people I can make miserable without compunction are my characters, guess what? Yep, a rheumatic fever outbreak. Not at Horngate, but nearby.…

  • I had a plan

    Today I had the plan of going to Missoula to do some location research on Blood Winter. Sadly I have now come down with the kid crap. Illness rarely keeps me awake unless it’s significant, and unless I am coughing.…

  • Making contact

    Dear character: After that shocking thing happened, you appear way too happy about it. Stop it. You really aren’t. In fact, one of these days you’re going to find out how really unhappy you are and then, well, guess what?…

  • the days keep coming

    I’ve just discovered something that probably everybody else already knew. But I’m sharing anyhow. For the past couple weeks, I’ve paused on the white Chuck Lorre Productions page that pops up after The Big Bang Theory, and I’ve read the…