Do nothing day

Started with a cold delay… that is a school delay due to obscene cold. A doctor’s appointment, and then a surprise gab session with my mother in law until school got out. After my daughter’s haircut, I rushed to get dinner going. And now it’s six, my house isn’t clean, dinner is just about done, […]

The Master is back

Surprisingly, the title is not a Doctor Who reference. No, I am the master procrastinator. Especially when it comes to writing my fight scenes. And here I am, right on the edge of witches taking on an enraged spirit, and I find myself contemplating my novels. I haven’t worked on them in over a year. I’ve been having […]

Humor, objectivity, and poop jokes

So I have a short story that I’m working on. The subject matter is… well, it’s about a poop monster. Now, me, I giggle when ever I read it. I wrote it on a bet with a romance writer. Could I make a bowel movement as important to the plot as sex is in romances. […]

Ain’t that always the way.

So yesterday was a depressing wait through the ice storm for the snow storm that never came.  Today the kids are back at school, so I had my 2.5 hours with no kids (the littlest one does half days) to get some writing done. But, of course, my brain wouldn’t co-operate until twenty minutes before […]

Frozen over

As my friend could tell you, I’m not overly fond of the city I live in at the moment, but today, we’re being crushed by an ice storm, so I am once again, home with my kids… and not working. It’s cold, I have to keep salting the sidewalks and breaking apart sheets of ice. […]

Saturday Scenes

Starting to clean up Monsters of Pittsburgh: Werewolves for publication. In honor of that I thought I’d show the opening. *** The slight shuffling of Maureen’s broken foot rolled Daisy Quinn off the cot and onto the cement floor before she woke up. “Twitchy, aren’t you?” Small, white teeth gleamed above Daisy. Maureen smiled too […]

Your resident evil overlord

I’m a writer and an urban fantasist at that. I’m sure I’m on a TSA database somewhere. Anybody who looks up homemade bombs, how long it takes bodies to decompose, how to make thermite at home, and how to escape zip ties is gonna ping their radars. But I also kill people… in my stories. It’s […]

I swear I’m not a moron

Maybe this should have been my IWSG post yesterday, but it’s driving me nuts. All my life, I’ve fought my dyslexia. It’s not like you see in media. I can read (extremely well, actually) and do math (less well, but still…). I can’t however remember phone numbers to save my life, and right and left… […]

Insecure Writer’s Support Group

Another month, another airing of insecurities. This week I’m obsessed with sales. Haven’t had one in awhile. Now, I have had pre-orders for the Omnibus of my latest series, and I’m trying really hard to be happy about that. But all the same, I like seeing my daily peaks. There’s something comforting about knowing that […]

Publishing Day – Brownie

It’s been over a week since her friend’s death, but Mina Grekov still isn’t back to normal. Even her new relationship with Rick can’t chase away her blues entirely. But a phone call for help from Rita’s bar might change all of that. Just 0.99 over at Amazon!