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...

Juggling Your Multiple Personalities

Juggling seems to be a recurrent theme with me; whether I'm juggling the many projects I'm working on or work and writing time with ...