No one in my immediate family likes turkey much. This wasn’t always the case. As a child, I remember my grandmother making a turkey every year. She made the perfect dressing, too. There was always pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving and Christmas. (I like pumpkin pie so much it is my birthday…
Today marks the beginning of a week-long blog tour I’m participating in. The Giftmas Blog Tour is a bunch of people coming together to raise money for the Edmonton Food Bank in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I wanted to start Giftmas off by talking about food banks in general and why I’m…
Are you looking for reasonably priced, local gifts for this holiday season? You’re sure to find the perfect gift for someone on your list (or yourself) at the CCPL 2016 Local Author Fair! Drop in any time between 1:00-4:00 p.m. to meet writers from our community and celebrate their talent.…
I’ve joined in a fun promo coming up this Friday! It’s the First Friday Free Fantasy promo, and we’ve got over 65 authors giving away free fantasy! Some of the giveaways are entire novels, some are short stories, and some are partial novels. In my case, I’m giving away the first…
The Allen County Public Library Author Fair Committee sent out links to panel videos last week, and since my fellow panelists Jennifer Foehner Wells and Kayleen Reusser had such great advice during their presentations, I want to share the whole video with you. We each talked for about ten minutes, and…
Okay, let me start with a disclaimer. Well, with two disclaimers. One: Mystery isn’t my main reading genre. And two: I’ve been reeling since the election on November 8. I’ll be clear here: I was a Bernie Sanders supporter, but I voted for Hillary Clinton. And I am still stunned…
Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate! Happy Thursday to everyone outside the US! ;) Today I’m over at Mary Robinette Kowal’s blog talking about My Favorite Bit of Shades of Circle City. If you don’t know Mary Robinette Kowal’s writing, by the way, you’re missing out!…
This is the text of a presentation on self-publishing that I gave at the Allen County Public Library’s Author Fair yesterday. I’m posting this, complete with links, in the hopes it will be useful to writers who are beginning to research their publishing journey. Lots of you probably know that…
I made a playlist on Spotify of some of the many songs I’ve been listening to while writing this third draft of Shades of Circle City. I think it captures some of the feel of the book. :) This is just a short version. My actual iTunes playlist has 74 songs in…
One thing I absolutely love about writing urban fantasy is how many little details of life in the Indianapolis area I can squeeze in. (Another thing I love is how easy it is to research, compared to something set in a completely made-up secondary world!) I spent a lot of…
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