Golden Heart finalist calls will come out in less than three months. But that’s not the “it” I’m talking about (yet). It’s almost time for the annual Ruby Slippered Sisterhood Winter Writing Festival. The festival starts on Jan. 11 and runs through the end of February — an extra...

Had you asked me last week whether I was going to win NaNoWriMo this year, I’d have laughed — most likely right in your face. With two entries for the 2012 Golden Heart competition to polish, I’d pretty much written off finishing NaNo. When I popped my last GH...

I’m guest blogging at Gem State Writers today about how writing and weight loss are a lot alike. The most obvious one way is that both require discipline and commitment. But there are four more … Want the details? Stop by and check it out....

With today being a time to give thanks, I thought it’d be fun to reflect on some of the things I’m thankful  for in my writing life this year. My Golden Heart final. Having “Beauty and the Ballplayer” final in the GH did more than open new doors. It...

I’m pretty sure pre-planning was the reason I powered through 53,000 words in 30 days in 2010. So as much as I hate to sit down and “plot,” I spent part of the weekend doing exactly that. I’ve had the idea for this story for a while, ever since...

What do you do when one trusted friend tells you to scrap the first chapter of one of the stories you plan on entering in the 2012 GH? If it’s a chapter you love, chock-full of hilarious lines and you’re not ready to hear the fateful directive to “chop...

Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a Mac girl — always have been. So it’s no surprise that I, along with the rest of the world, was saddened by Steve Jobs’ death. The man truly was an innovator, and we wouldn’t be who we are without his creations....

When opportunity knocks, you listen. So when an encounter through the day job led to a chance to be profiled on a Phoenix PR firm’s website, I seized the opportunity. I was in contact with Alison Bailin, a senior account executive at HMA Public Relations, about a new Subway...

Longtime readers of my weight-loss blog know that when I go AWOL from the blog, it’s because I’m not doing so well at the whole diet and exercise thing. That’s not the case here. I’ve been writing up a storm — I just haven’t had any time to blog about...

… Not writing it, thank goodness. Although I love watching “Dateline” and other true-crime shows on Investigation Discovery (“Deadly Women,” anyone?), I don’t think I have the chops to write RS. Keeping that thread of danger running throughout isn’t for me. However, I can enjoy reading romantic suspense, when...