Paranormal Mystery Author
Hey Y’all,
Thank you for joining me for my weekly planning session. This is what I’m mixing up in the cauldron this week:
My goal is 10,000 words this week on what I hope will be a 100,000-word first draft – give or take 5000 words. I try to write Monday through Saturday, so that will be about 1700 words a day. So, it is entirely doable, if I just sit down and do it. 😊
[Read more…] about What’s Happening in the Cauldron August 22 – 28
Thank you for joining me for my weekly planning session. This is what I’m mixing up in the cauldron this week:
I’m plotting Whining in Wolfland, the next book in THE LARAMIE HARPER CHRONICLES, and I’ll be writing the blurb (book description) to share with you sometime this week. I didn’t plot a jot before writing my first novel, Dying in Dallas, because I had the complete story ready and waiting in my noggin.
Spoiler alert: I did not.
[Read more…] about August 8 – 14, 2022
No, I’m not one of those authors you read about who has always written. But I’ve always been a reader and, like most readers, always thought, “I could do that.”
In my twenties, I dabbled in poetry. Very cringe-worthy poetry. Around that time, I also made several false starts on writing novels. I quickly realized that I didn’t know how to keep going past the first few pages. I’m going to age myself here and say that this was before the Internet really took off. Which meant I had to go to a bookstore and buy several how-to-write books. Unfortunately, they were drier than century-old bones. I’ve never been big on forcing myself to muddle through misery, so I didn’t finish any of them.
Life and my career got in the way, but I always thought “someday.” Then, one day I read an interview with one of my favorite authors, Mary Higgins Clark. She said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that if you are a writer, you write. You’ll write any time you get a chance. If you say, “someday I’ll write,” you’ll never write. Since I didn’t personally know any authors, I took her words as gospel and packed away my author dreams with my drier than the Sahara writing books.
[Read more…] about Ask Me A Question – July 2022Check out the December Fantasy and Magic Free Books promotion that I’m taking part in this month.
Goodreads is a website—with apps for mobile devices—that allows users to track books, read and leave book reviews, and connect with other readers. I started using Goodreads in 2019, and I wish I had found it sooner. So I’ve compiled the five ways that I use Goodreads. There are over five, but my cauldron, my reasons. 😂
Each year Goodreads starts a new reading challenge. I select a goal number of books I want to read for the year, and each time I mark a book as read, it counts toward my yearly goal. I’m goal-oriented, and I love marking things off to-do lists. So this is a win for me.
[Read more…] about The Five Ways I Use Goodreads
Happy April!
We’re having lovely weather in Ireland – I probably just jinxed us – but I’m enjoying finding a sunny spot in the house and catching up on my reading.
If you’re looking to fill up your favorite reading app with free books and stories, you’ve come to the right place. I’m participating in two promotions this month.
Click on the graphics below to be taken to the selections.
Enjoy!
