I really need to get a title for this book, but I usually figure out the title once I get to the end of the book. (ETA: It’s called THE FLAME OF BATTLE.) Anyway, here’s a screenshot from a little bit more of my Viking novel. It is going to …
Here’s a little bit from the Viking story I’m working on. The ship that Dyrfinna is on got lost in a storm and had a hole broken into it, so they’ve landed, and the crew has a little time to wash up and eat while the ship is being repaired. …
Galloping along on the story (actually going back and forth on it a lot, present to past to future, as I tend to do). I have a little problem — I’m writing about Vikings and don’t know a damn thing about ships, or ocean stuff, or any of the important …
GUYS. COOL NEWS HERE. This year I’m writing a Viking series with Pauline Creeden. I’m already working on the first book. It’s going to be a trilogy, though really, I’m visualizing more of a series. We’ll see what happens. We’ll probably have a May publication date for the first one, …
Every writer has a different list of writing books, but these are some of my favorites. I’ve left out a bunch — I’ve read so many writing books over the years — but heck, I can always write more of these writing book roundups later on. Janet Burroway. Writing Fiction: …
Newsletter up! — Looking for book reviews for Butterfly Chaos — Rose to the Occasion will be free from Monday-Wednesday — Lots of promos — Plus a chicken video.
In Butterfly Chaos and my other novel, What You Can’t Take Back, I have some big tornadoes tearing through my hometown in northwest Missouri. I used to be super-scared of tornadoes and thunderstorms, but now I love them. The kicker is, I’ve never seen a tornado. I’d sure like to …
Here’s a chapter from Wandering Stars, the second of the White Oak Chronicles (but it can also be read as a stand-alone book). Thorn’s one of my favorite characters, to be honest. He’s the chieftain of the White Oak tribe, now leading them from their destroyed home to a new …
In 1995, I sent out my first novel and got my first rejection. I was a bright-eyed college student of 25 years, just married, and a writing hotshot. I read a lot of classic literature and I’d been churning out stories since grade school. “You must want to enough,” Phyllis …
I’m keeping pretty well ahead of the game for Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month, which happens every year in November — authors all over the world aim to write 50,000 words between November 1 and November 30). I’m averaging over 2,000 words a day, which is kind of an amazing …
