Taking Suggestions for #TuesdaySerial

Dear TuesdaySerial Writers and Readers,
Thanks so much for the terrific support! We are thirteen weeks in and we have a nice variety of regular stories, a few debuts each week, and Tony and I are so pleased with how #TuesdaySerial is working out. Behind the scenes, we are keeping the process pretty streamlined, [...]

Thoughts on E-Books

One of my Twitter friends, Greg McQueen, is preparing for an upcoming podcast on the subject of E-books and has asked people to share their opinions and thoughts on e-books. This will be a brief post since I am writing when I should be sleeping, but here are my thoughts …

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Help me pick a new look!

I’ve been tinkering with my blog and I think the time has come to redo the banner.  I like the old typewriter keys, but i’m looking for something with a bit more color to spruce up the neighborhood a bit.  Due to my very limited graphics skills and even more limited budget, I will be [...]

Podcasts for Writers

If you’re anything like me (or even if you’re not), it’s sometimes difficult to keep up-to-date on all of the blogs for writers that I would like to follow.  They are chock-full of terrific information, but i don’t have that much screen time to read them.  My I-Pad is helping some because it’s easier to [...]

#FridayFlash Retrospective

Jon Strother over at Mad Utopia and all of the #FridayFlash writers are celebrating the one-year anniversary of #FridayFlash. One of the things that Jon has done to celebrate is to painstakingly compile a list of all the writers’ debut stories. There have been a total of 248 participants during the first year [...]

Standing Ovation

One morning not long ago, while driving my son to school, I saw an accident. A woman lay on the ground on a street corner near my house. A crossing guard and some passersby were trying to help her. As I turned the corner, I heard the ambulance siren in the distance [...]

An Online Chat with J.A. Konrath

If you are a writer or a reader (and who isn’t?) and you haven’t heard of J.A. Konrath, then you need to get to know him.  He writes thrillers and can be found on twitter.  Readers can find more about his books on his website and writers can get his brilliant insider information on writing [...]

I won the “Write On” February Challenge with “Waiting for Spring”

In case you didn’t see it on Twitter and didn’t see it on Facebook and didn’t hear me shouting it from the top of Mt. Fuji, I wanted to let you know that I won first place in the Write On February Challenge with my story “Waiting for Spring.”  You can read my story and [...]

Surprise Endings: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

This post was a finalist in the Anniversary Contest over at the Publetariat site.

As readers of this blog will know, I’ve been writing stories and working on my novel for several months now and I am approaching the point where I am considering submitting some stories to literary magazines.  A few weeks ago, I started [...]