7 hours agoBook Recommendation: Payback's a WitchPayback is also entertaining, and the writing is great. I noticed Payback's a Witch when researching genre covers for my own books, The...
Apr 25The Ordinary Villain AKA My Pal the Serial Killer Advice in writer blogs goes in cycles. Lately, I've read several posts about villains and antagonists. They...
Mar 21Book Recommendations: Riffing on WillConfessions of an Old English Major I took a Shakespeare course. All English majors take a Shakespeare course. It's the law. The...
Mar 14Return to WitchFestThe almost official motto of Austin, TX is Keeping Austin Weird. Given the past couple of years, I might be tempted to change the motto...
Feb 27Recommendation: YA romantic suspense with Isis and Osiris contentFirst, let me set expectations. . . . I read almost anything about ancient Egypt and everything that even remotely touches on Isis and...
Feb 14A RELUCTANT ROMANCESince it's Valentine’s Day and I'm fascinated by lovers and Egyptology, I wanted to share a romance among the Egyptologists. A Reluctant...
Feb 7Why writers must read When Breath Becomes AirYou that seek what life is in death, Now find it air that once was breath. Baron Brooke Fulke Greville, A young neurosurgeon faced with a...
Jan 30The word for 2022: PUBLISHI am motivated to publish this year, and my goals for 2022 reflect that motivation. Since it's the last day of the first month, I decided...
Jan 14I am a Witch: The Pendle Witch ExhibitI first heard about the Pendle witches from a novel, The Daughters of Witching Hill, which I read back in 2014. SInce then, they come up...
Jan 9Auld Lang Syne & This Writer's LifeThe year 2021 is not a year on which I will look back with undiluted pleasure, as Queen Elizabeth II famously said. There was a rather...