In putting together my talk on self-publishing, I came across some interesting material. I started out looking for the names of famous self...

I am giving a talk at the library next week. (Middletown Township Public Library, May 2nd.) I am going to tell people how to e-publish their...

Saturday, I spent hours at a special New Jersey Romance Writers workshop listening to Michael Hauge's talk on story structure. It was a...

If you hide an accordion deep in the heart of New Jersey, hubby will find it. He does have good map skills, but while he has lived in New Je...

Yesterday, I spent some time making up a chart with the main characters in my new work-in-progress. The chart looks like this: This is the b...

The peach trees in the orchard have bloomed. They are beautiful, but every time I think of peaches, I think of my mother-in-law bringing me ...

I have been dividing my time between the real world (dishes, laundry, cooking, Easter bunnies, etc.) and June 29, 1778, which is the day my ...

Yesterday, hubby and I went to a party. Some longtime friends were celebrating two events--the successful recover of our host from surgery a...

Forty-nine years ago, this was Easter. There's me with my mouth open and those crazy eyeglasses, which were very stylish at the time. No...

Last weekend, I pitched The Pirate's Wraith to four different editors at the Liberty States Fiction Writers conference. Each of them as...

Before attempting to write a book about a pirate in 1711, I immersed myself in books about pirates and sailing ships. While most of the book...

Prince of the Mist is a hit this week. I hope all the readers who downloaded it for FREE enjoyed it and will give it a favorable online re...

For one week only, you can download Prince of the Mist for FREE! (Just in time for St. Patrick's Day!) You must download the book from ...

I finished The Pirate's Wraith, my time travel/pirate romance! This week I've been tightening, editing, and checking for continuity...

Twitter is useful. It can be a very powerful tool, but it can also be fun. We do not have cable television in our house. It is pointless sin...

This is a photo of Babci and Dziadzi taken last July. Dziadzi looks good for a 94 year old. At Dziadzi's wake, Babci wanted photos taken...

Death comes to us all. To some it comes sooner and to some, later. Dziadzi, hubby's father, was lucky enough to live a long, long time. ...

This is a very ancient photograph. It is actually a black and white image that my mother colored with special, transparent oil paints. Yes, ...

I became serious about publishing over twenty-five years ago. I started writing at the age of nine, but it took a long time before I really ...

Since it's Friday the Thirteenth, I thought this video would be appropriate. :^)