Love is worth the risk
Highlighting Historical Romance: Gloria Gay Notes from the heroine, Belinda Presleigh: I fell in love when I was thirteen. It was one warm summer afternoon. I was well hidden with my poetry book in a thicket of bushes and had almost dozed off. I was trespassing in land that adjoined my father’s as I often […]
Starting a new story feels like priming a pump that just doesn’t want to flow. I pour in a little ‘water’ in the form of characters and some vague idea of the inciting incident or opening disturbance and then pump and pump, but the words drip out one by one and I’m left waiting for […]
Well, who doesn’t? You would think someone who is retired would not distinguish between weekends and, well, Monday. As it turns out, old habits die hard, and, well the rest of the word still works weekdays. While there may have been some easing, Monday is still Monday. Why do I hate it? Plans and […]
Highlighting Historical Romance: Jude Knight joins us to talk about her work. I love research. I even love research when I have a perfectly delightful plot that falls apart when research proves it couldn’t have happened. Working out what might be historically probable instead, or at least plausible, has allowed me to drop down many […]
Today’s my birthday and my thoughts turn to health and vitality. I told my grandbuddy that I planned to dance at his wedding. Since that is many years away and the plan is to actually dance, I have to make sure I keep moving. For a novelist that is tough sometimes. We live in our […]