As it stands, I don't have anything much to write about. Things are happening, good things, but they involve family, who I don't u...

    In writing for publication, the reader has to be taken into account-- whether it's a blog, story, or book. The author desires to wri...

  To start, I want to say that what went wrong with us is as nothing compared to other horrendous things-- especially right now, Maui. For u...

 To start, I want to say I won't be discussing partisan political issues in this blog *fingers crossed that I can stay with that for my ...

  For my blog, it's back to elements of writing certain kinds of books, often labeled suspense. Before I go into mine, I have another as...

  view out our bedroom window of Pusch Ridge and clouds typical of our monsoon season down here. There are a LOT of things going on in our w...

With it being midsummer, so far no monsoons have shown up-- although we eagerly await and hope for the rain. One night we saw lightning flar...

It might look as though I got rid of Twitter. With all the controversy and changes going around, it'd be easy to assume that. Well, I st...

T his subject began with a dream. I saw three men vying for a post at the Air Force Academy (remember it's a dream and hence does not ha...

  To write about romances is to lose some readers with the very word as the stories have been ridiculed so much, with a fair number poorly w...

  Sometimes, it's obvious from where the idea for a book has come. I have been thinking about this topic and then looked at books I'...

   To start, I want to define a word, esoteric -- i ntended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specializ...

  As I said before, I can't tell you how to create books here. What I can do is relate how it has worked for me with some of my own. The...

  In a book's first pages is the ground on which all the rest is built. Who was this person? Why should I care about them and read the...