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Us and Them

Us and Them

Because Fire in the Heart has been out for a year and a half, I sometimes reflect on what I could have written and ...

Finding Why

One of the most valuable things I have learned about writing is this: You need to know your why. As in, why are ...
Camp Fire Lessons

Camp Fire Lessons

In my day job, I've been working on "fuels reduction" projects in northern California, and it's never as easy as ...
Discount Book Madness!

Discount Book Madness!

Stopping by to say that I bought a bunch of my books at a discount--yes, authors have to buy their own books ...
Giving it up

Giving it up

Next year will be the first that I haven't had an "arduous" rating on my firefighter red card since 1986. Back ...
Little things that annoy writers

Little things that annoy writers

(or at least, this writer) A non-comprehensive list. "What should I do? Take up a hobby, go to Africa, write a ...
The Mojo is Back!

The Mojo is Back!

I always tell people: those fragments, those flashes of brilliance, should be kept. Throw them in a drawer, in an ...
Discouragement

Discouragement

I think every writer goes through this. It can be a hard slog. Much like postholing through old snow (which I did ...
Am I Done?

Am I Done?

After having banged out 3 long manuscripts in about the same amount of years, two of which became books, and one ...
taking me back to old places

taking me back to old places

Where did this come from, I wondered as I started reading the novel Piano Tide, by Kathleen Dean Moore. How did I ...
I’m in an Anthology!

I’m in an Anthology!

Recently, I was asked to read for Women's History Month. I'm sure the attendees were expecting something from Fire ...