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Because Fire in the Heart has been out for a year and a half, I sometimes reflect on what I could have written and ...
One of the most valuable things I have learned about writing is this: You need to know your why.
As in, why are ...
In my day job, I've been working on "fuels reduction" projects in northern California, and it's never as easy as ...
Stopping by to say that I bought a bunch of my books at a discount--yes, authors have to buy their own books ...
Next year will be the first that I haven't had an "arduous" rating on my firefighter red card since 1986. Back ...
(or at least, this writer)
A non-comprehensive list.
"What should I do? Take up a hobby, go to Africa, write a ...
That's the amount of copies Fire in the Heart has sold. You can look at it in a positive way--Yippee! 2500 people ...
I always tell people: those fragments, those flashes of brilliance, should be kept. Throw them in a drawer, in an ...
I think every writer goes through this. It can be a hard slog. Much like postholing through old snow (which I did ...
After having banged out 3 long manuscripts in about the same amount of years, two of which became books, and one ...
Where did this come from, I wondered as I started reading the novel Piano Tide, by Kathleen Dean Moore. How did I ...
Recently, I was asked to read for Women's History Month. I'm sure the attendees were expecting something from Fire ...