Month: August 2016

A fantastic blog I’ve been reading and enjoying is Rashmi Menon’s Mind And Life Matters and her Beyond Coffee And Words , (coffee is written with Piyusha Vir). Both sites are brilliant and uplifting places to go and spend time. I recently asked Rashmi to pen a guest blog post (do we “pen” things anymore? “Clicked and clacked […]

My first ever book, about the sweet evolution of ME from non-dad to dad, and all the hilarious stuff I learned along the way. Hard to believe it was six years ago. The Kindle Countdown is underway. Don’t miss out on the savings. Savvy Stories is the first in the 3-part series. Click HERE to get […]

A few ideas on character arcs  

If you got an email last night (check your spam folder) you know we are finally ready to start the Soul Mates story. Probably. There were a few false starts and a vacation AND a computer crash, among other things. School started. There may have been a flood. Famine. Locusts… Soul Mates is the working title […]

On occasion I get letters from readers (or I just make one up) asking for writing advice, needing suggestions about their work, requests for money… I’m happy to answer these fans, and since what they want to know is usually something others might need to know, I share the letters here. (Names withheld to protect […]

My friend D G Kaye wrote about this topic regarding what the dying want to tell us about living, gleaned from her own experiences and validated by a something she read. I was captured by a few paragraphs in the post she linked to.   Well, I was captured by the whole article… but these were the […]

Yes, it’s time to start doing our Friday writing challenges again! Today’s is simple because I know you’re rusty.   Complete the following sentence. The most important thing about writing a book is… That’s it. That’s the challenge. That might be harder than it looks, but there probably are no wrong answers. So, now that you […]

Yep. I added a page for all these videos we’ve been doing. Check it out HERE (or on the tab above)  

This post was originally a guest blog post on happy meerkat’s page, and I’ve shared it from there. No, wait. Meerkat was the guest at Eternal Scribbler’s blog. I think. Anyway, it’s good info you need, people! . Being a book reviewer is something far more rewarding than I ever imagined.  Being able to read […]