Cover art!

Oooh, the time is getting closer my friends! Elena’s book actually has a release date, December 30, and cover art for both editions. And now you can see that you will be able to buy it either as a trade or mass market paperback:

You can preorder at Amazon or Random House (not yet [...]

Avon Walk…at last!

This is me, starting out this morning in Dillon, Colorado on the second leg of the Avon Breast Cancer Walk in the Rocky Mountains. As you can see, the scenery was well worth every single step, all by itself.
Far more worthwhile were the stories I heard along the way, and the tags I [...]

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair

In the currently underway Voice II class, one of the exercises is to come up with your favorite fairy tale. (From Julia Cameron’s Right to Write, btw.) We are working on themes and ideas in our work, and the favorite fairy tale is one way to think about what themes appeal to you.
My favorite fairy [...]

Balance, babe

It’s not easy to shut out the business of writing and allow the work itself to just emerge. Sometimes, it’s brutally difficult, especially if you’re trying to make a living at it. I can get a wee bit grouchy trying to be true to the work while also remembering I have an [...]