The almost-ready short story collection!

My first short story collection is almost done! Here’s the cover: I am very excited, especially since I designed the cover myself! I had help from my graphical reviewers, Drew (who designed the Blackbird Publishing logo, and Vignesh. All three short stories are ready to go, so I just need to format the interior of…

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The first draft of novel #2 is finished!!!

It still has no name…but it’s done!!! I’ve had a challenging time with this book. It has (unless I change it later…) four viewpoint characters. Four!!! Almost all of my stories to date have had only one viewpoint character, so writing at this length with four (four!!!) has been both interesting and difficult. Coincidentally, one…

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The rules of ghosts

The title of this post makes me think of The Rule of Names by Ursula K. Le Guin – it’s one of my favorite short stories. But this post is about ghosts, not names … nor dragons … I’ve had a few people ask how I came up with the ‘rules’ Emma has to follow…