I realized I haven’t done a Catch Up! post in a while and there are people starting to email me about when the next book is out. So, so you can budget out your book buying plans for 2017, here’s what I’m up to. BODIES IN MOTION The first book…
So, you might have noticed there was a flurry of blogging last weekend and this sudden radio silence once November hit. That’s because I’m actually doing NaNoWriMo this year. Not casually, like I have for several years, but actually trying to finish a 75,000 word novel before December 1st…
Curious readers may have wondered why the blog has been unusually quiet this week. Those who follow me on Twitter already know the answer: AMY IS HERE. My best friend in the world, the Good Twin to my Evil Twin, my Australian partner-in-crime, and platonic soul mate who keeps me…
When someone says the word ‘balance’ we tend to think of checkbooks or standing on one foot. It doesn’t conjure up an immediate image of writing, probably because writers usually say “pace” or “plot element” and the word balance doesn’t enter into the equation. I want to change that today…
Back in June I released the first chapter of EVEN VILLAINS FALL IN LOVE in an intro anthology from the SFR Brigade titled PORTALS:Volume 4 (we’re up to 7 now I think). I didn’t really think much of it until this week while I was in a post-book shambles. I…
You know me, any excuse for a few minutes of peace and quiet is a good one. Sleep researchers have been working for years to explain the benefits of napping. Does this scenario sound familiar… You’ve been at the computer for three hours straight. Between checking e-mail, balancing the checkbook,…
Since arriving in Alaska in early 2015 one thing I’ve been absolutely keen to do is see the beluga whales at Beluga Point. Just a few miles south of Anchorage proper, along the Seward Highway, there is a turn off near an outcropping of stone where -rumor had it –…
Someone asked me today what they should do if life is just too overwhelming. When you hurt, and depressed, and you’ve been kicked down so many times by life that you can’t remember not being in the mud… I’m not sure I have an answer for that. It’s a good…
We were at the zoo. It was pushing 80 during a record-breaking heatwave in Alaska. The house has no air conditioning, the kids were going crazy, and the zoo had popcorn, pokestops, two pokemon gyms, and some new cygnets that have grown a lot this week. So we went… chilling…
As I’m writing tonight the world is an uproar. There have been massive bombings during the holy month of Ramadan, shootings of civilians in America, and now police officers are being attacked. People are grieving. They fear for their lives and the lives of those they love. Parents are struggling…