"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful Continue Reading
My top-selling bookish design on Redbubble is...Continue Reading
This quote is applicable to what I wrote about yesterday in my blog tour discussion of Saving Montgomery Sole and the importance of reading about people who are different than us. It's applicable to what's happening in our world today. We can't fight hate with hate. We must fight it with love. And books are one of the strongest weapons we have.Continue Reading
If you do one online search for writing quotes, you'll get quite a few responses–208,000,000 results in under a second, to be exact.
I discovered one that I quite liked.Continue Reading
A Garden and a Library (Cicero Quote) is now available in my RedBubble shop!
I fell in love with this quote and the possibility of sitting with a good book in a sunlit garden full of fragrant flowers. It sounds relaxing and just plain wonderful.Continue Reading
Are you a planner? Are you a write-by-the-seat-of-your-pantster? I’m not sure where I fit.
There's a lot of advice out there about planning before you write AND about just writing without bogging yourself down with planning.Continue Reading
Weird. As writers and readers we've all probably been called this at some point. Whether you've been called weird because of what you've written or because of what you like to read, remember, weird does not mean bad.Continue Reading
As someone who is dreaming of and working my way to paying my bills with my writing and my editing, I often have moments where I tremble with the fear that I'm not good enough. But I choose to pick myself up and keep believing.Continue Reading