Where'd All This Junk Come From???

They say looking into a person's personal space is like looking into their subconscious. If that's true, boy am I in trouble! You sh...

My [Actual] Space

My writing space is a room in the middle of the house that “should” have been my dining room. Since I’ve never owned a dining room set, the ...

Clean Desk = Sick Mind

Virginia Woolf extolled the virtues of "a room of one's own." Dorothy Parker simply needed room enough "to lay a hat and...

Where My Romances Come to Life

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to make one of my Haines characters a writer. Then word came down from NY that using a writer as a char...

National Disaster = Fantastic Office = National Disaster

This week’s theme is…what is your office like? Well, to be honest, it’s a disaster at the moment. Normally, it flips between that disaster s...

There Are No Lunar Calendars In Space

I was thinking about Easter this weekend (duh!) and pondering the nature of the festival and how it would change in a different environment....

Guest - Leslie Hodges, Editor

Good morning, everyone. Angela gave a wonderful introduction for this week's guest in today's first post so without further ado, let...

Introducing Leslie Hodges, Editor of Wings ePress

I'd like to introduce you to Leslie Hodges, one of our editors from Wings ePress, which publishes both e-books and trade paperbacks. She...

Star Light, Star Bright....Interstellar Interview with Angela Knight

Angela Knight is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of books for Berkley, Red Sage, Changeling Press, and Loose Id. B...

A Rare Gem

So I almost never go shopping without a goal. A) because I’d spend every last cent I had and B) because I’d waste a lot of time. I most ofte...

Watch what you drink

I hope everyone had a great St. Patrick’s Day, ate lots of corned beef and cabbage and enjoyed some green beer yesterday. I know I did…well,...

Top o' the mornin' to ya!

Sexy Comments & Profile Graphics Just stopping by to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm not much into green beer, but ...

What Kinda Crazy Idea Is That?

This week at Star-Crossed, we're blogging about the science in our stories. Every science fiction or speculative fiction story must, by...

Will All the Techies Please Stand Up?

TAKE ME IN YOUR HEART was the first novel where I tried my hand at being a mad scientist. In fact, I created a scientist, who embodied a per...

The Market for SFR

Since I mostly write SFR (science fiction romance) the science in my stories is very important. Not that I dump vast quantities of science f...

A Few Tips On Writing That I Use

So many here have already written about characters, and I reckon in the past I've warbled on enough about what I like to see in my chara...