Author’s Blog

Life and Sunshine

Monday dawns again to a bright sunny day and an aching shoulder. Again. I’ve been back to my physical therapy exercises and they help for a while. I had a few days when both shoulders, my elbows and my hands ached. I have no idea why, but such is life and it impacts writing. At […]

Does Fall Start Here?

Ah, Labor Day. Pools close. Schools are open. Summer is over? The Autumn Equinox is on September 22, when the sun will be over the equator and days and nights will be exactly equal. That has always worked for me. We have two weeks to go! On the other hand, Meteorological Autumn begins September 1. […]

Why I Named My Heroine After a Mongoose

This week Rue Allyn joins us with some literary facts behind her fiction: why she named her female character after a male mongoose. According to Google’s AI, “Rikky is a feminine name that evolved as a diminutive or variant spelling of Ricki, which itself originated as a nickname for names like Erica, Richelle, or Patricia.” However, […]

New Moon

New Month. Where did August go? And new stories in Moonlight. Moonlight Madness has moved forward; it is available for pre-order. As the intrepid project manager I have assembled a full draft and getting ready to put it in vellum. That will enable the authors to share it to reviewers and ARC readers. We’ll give […]

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