Winding Up the Year

It’s that time again. December is here [though you wouldn’t know it in Northern NJ where the weather feels more like spring today], and ther...

Other World Environments

Yesterday we had a near record high temperature of 66 degrees. Tomorrow, the forecast is for snow and possibly freezing rain. Changeable wea...

ah - that sweet taste of - THE END!

I love my characters and I love my books, but you know what is the ultimate in satisfaction? When you type The End - and you know you've...

My Turn to be Thankful

I know it's a few days late...but my turn in the rotation came up, and my turn to be thankful. This year, I'm thankful I didn't...

Many Thanks

I don't know where to begin. I'm thankful for so many things this year. For my husband for supporting me and being my biggest cheerl...

I know it's a day early....

But I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Even if you don't celebrate the holiday, I hope you have a wonderful day. I love Tha...

People for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime?

Since its two days until Thanksgiving, I figured I needed to find a message that expressed the sentiment of the season. My musing led me to ...

Weekly Author Spotlight

Starting Monday, November 20, I'll be the featured author at Weekly Author Spotlight. It's a yahoo group so if you're not a memb...

Rewriting the Unrewritable

Going through my old files, I found a story I wrote about 10 years ago. Reading it is a painful exercise in the futility of major editing. I...

The POS Draft

I believe I first heard this term from Nora Roberts. In an interview she was describing her very first draft of a novel, the one she just sp...

Trust

In between grousing about my on-going kitchen remodel and my day job, I’ve been doing some fairly heavy rewrites on my current wip (work in ...

Traveling the stars dilemma!

I've been going great guns with my current WIP. Still fighting the characters a bit, but we've come to an understanding. But now I h...

Future (Im)Perfect

I write Futuristic and Science Fiction Erotic Romance. My characters live, love, and lust after each other in technologically advanced worl...

Don't Steal My Thunder!

We’ve all been witnesses to this crime. That instant when you’re cruising along, then BAM!, a secondary character takes over the show. Out o...

Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

I’ll admit that I’m fickle when it comes to heroes. Way back in the 70’s it didn’t take me long to get over Shaun Cassidy as Joe in the Hard...

War

I’m living in a war zone, or what looks like one and I really haven’t thought about my article for this blog. So you all get my deepest and ...

When Bad Chapters Happen to Good Writers...

Not that I'm saying I'm a good writer...but I had a most frustrating experience the other night. I have been busily writing on my WI...

NaNo and Mars

So I, like about 70,000 other writers, am doing NaNo this year. "Doing NaNo" being shorthand for participating in National Novel ...

Something Furry This Way Comes

Don’t you just love old books, especially ones that deal with magic or ancient stories? I’m more of a fairytale nut myself, but I can’t help...

Do You Think It's Spooky When...

...things happen unexpectedly? Have you ever been thinking of someone you haven’t heard from in a while and then the phone rings and it’s th...

Ravenstar Recommended

I'm posting this here as a test. Blogger won't let me upload this to my own blog for some reason. I just got this in my e-mail toda...

Superstitions

Growing up in a 'country' family (though we lived in the city for the most part), I learned a lot of superstitions. My lovely daught...

Halloween Memories

I'm slipping this in here today, because I got really busy yesterday and thought my day to submit was later in the week. I just checked ...

Finally behaving themselves!

Can you believe the two characters I was ranting about have finally decided to behave themselves? Up to a point anyway. We seem to have re...

Aggravatin' Characters

Well, since everyone else is having issues with their aggravatin' characters, I thought I might share some of my pain with you all and l...

Warning: High Heels May be Hazardous to Your Health

I still remember the good ol’ days of my youth when I’d pile in my grandparents’ car with my sister to take that special once a year ride to...

Frakkin’ Frellin’ Goram Felgercarb!

There. I said it. All the intergalactic cussin’ I can think of off the cuff. Today’s post is a tribute to ‘bad words’ – the good kind of bad...

Men!

Who among us has never uttered that word? With or without your choice of expletives? My darling husband is nobody's saint but he's a...

frustrating characters

Right now, I hate my two characters. Well, no, I don't really HATE them. That's the wrong word. My current two characters frustrat...

The Long and Short of It

When you first come up with a story idea, how do you know if it's going to be a novel, novella or short story? If you only have a germ o...

Got Romance?

On the eve of my seventh anniversary, and hungry for an idea to wet my honey’s appetite, I find myself looking back over our years together…...

Forbidden Planets

One of the best SF films ever, Forbidden Planet (1956) introduced us to a mysterious planet where monsters abide - and Robbie the Robot. Th...

Breaking the Boundaries of Love

As my alter ego, Bernadette Gardner, I’m a hard core sci-fi fan. In Bernadette’s short erotic romances, I explore the steamier side of scien...

Review for Heartstone

Folks, I'm sorry I've had such a low profile around here lately. I've had to work OT at the day job, I'm trying to do a rewr...

What Elves Eat - Out Now!

What Elves Eat , my male/male erotic fantasy story, is out now at Changeling Press. This is my first foray into writing manlove, so if you l...

The TBR pile topples!

I've just received a huge box from Amazon this morning after a book-buying spree last week. I bought 12 books but in my defence some of...