Strangely, Incredibly Good: An Online Celebration

  If you've been following this blog since 2008, and many of you have and I love you for it!, you know that I've written poetry most of my life. My first poetry collection, Where the Butterflies Go, was born from this blog in 2008, and three others followed. Then I tried my hand at …

One Strangely, Incredibly Good Tour!

STRANGELY, INCREDIBLY GOOD comes out in ebook June 5th, and I'm going on tour June 1-30th, 2014. Fictionella is setting up an online blog tour for me -I'll be visiting up to 25 blogs. This Is So Exciting! What do you want me to talk about? Please discuss below, or send me a note via …

The Writing Process Blog Hop

Thanks very much to Doreen Pendgracs for inviting me to participate in this fun blog hop about the writing process. I met Doreen through PWAC (Professional Writers Association of Canada) many years ago, and she has been a great supporter of all my writing projects ever since. Thanks Doreen! Doreen’s intent is to educate, entertain …

Take Ten Thursday Writing Prompt

Hello again! I missed a Thursday while visiting Kingston, Ontario on my Three Spaces book tour, speaking at Queen's University and visiting two bookstores. But while there, I took some neat shots, and was hoping you'd be inspired to write something looking at them today. I'll post two. All you have to do is take …

Do Not Think…Just Write.

Do not 'Think' you have a book inside of you. Go from 'Think' to 'Do!' by scribbling or typing some of it down -at least 1,000 words of it- without editing it as you go. Do it today. Do not tear up what you've done, or allow yourself to listen to the voices telling you …