2023 in Review

Well, another year has passed. When I was young life seemed move at a snail’s pace, and now that I’m older, the years are flying by. 2023 was an eventful one, both for my “brilliant career” and for me personally. I published ten short stories and one little essay. One of my stories was nominated …

WIP Titles Game

I'm stealing this from my sister because I wanted to and it sounds like fun. Feel free to steal this from me. The titles listed have yet to be accepted for publication. Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask …

A Life and Writing Update

I hadn’t intended to neglect this blog/site for so long, but life happened. On June 29, 2023, the Derecho storm sweeping through the Midwest swept through my home town. We were lucky; we weren’t harmed, our animals were safe, our house was fine. Other than a few large tree limbs, we had no damage. However, …

I Changed My Mind

Okay, so, in my previous post I rambled about how I was trying out this new writing advice on my novel. To make a long post short, you used your current draft as a template and rewrote your WIP from start to finish. It seemed to be going…so-so. I said I was falling back in …

Some New Writing Advice

If you read my Plans for 2023 post, I mentioned I was revising a novel of mine, with the intention of publishing it via Kindle sometime this year. I was going to shoot for March. Yeah, that’s totally not going to happen. I did some editing on it in December and thought I was heading …

Plans for 2023

Happy New Year everyone! I can't believe it's 2023 already. Okay, in this post, I'm going to list my upcoming publications for this year (thus far, I hope there will be more) and what I've been working on and planning lately. My first publication of this year will be my essay, "Holding on to Keep …

2022 in Review

I can’t believe 2022 is coming to an end! Where did the time go? It’s been a busy year, personally, work-wise, and writing and publishing wise. At the end of every year, I like to do a post on my writing and publishing highlights. Then on January 1st, I’ll do a post on what the …

Lay It Out Magazine: Issue 8

Wonderful news! My essay "How It All Began," was included in Lay It Out: Issue 8. Learn how I went from writing Christian fiction to writing mystery/crime and speculative fiction. Such a nice surprise. Merry Christmas to me! If you're interested in reading it, click here. You will have to join their Patreon to access …

A Writing Update

Apologies for being MIA this month. I don’t have much of an excuse except that family stuff (family visiting, we lost a friend, we said goodbye to a furbaby, we adopted a new furbaby), work, and writing has kept me busy. I realize, it’s been a while since I’ve written a blogpost about my latest …

An Interview With Agape Review

Guess what?!?!?! Justine John Hemmestad and Katie Sampias, the interview editors of Agape Review, interviewed me for their Christian literary journal. I was stunned that they reached out to me, but really psyched to do this. So please, check out their journal, it's fantastic! Now, if you're interested in reading my interview, click here. Also, …