I love Halloween. It’s hard not to love a holiday that involves obscene amounts of chocolate. But Halloween is about much more than trick-or-treating. It’s about wearing disguises and being scared. Kind of like writing.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was polishing up the manuscript that became my first published novel.  I was dreaming about who to send it to, how long it would take to show up at my local bookstore, and how much money I would make from it.  (I had done a lot of research [...]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! YOU CAN’T SEE A GHOST Ghost writing in fiction is one of those shadow jobs that most writers would never consider. Why would they? You get no credit for writing the book, it is often in another writer’s voice, and the pay, while not bad, is not as good as writing your own [...]

It was a dark and stormy night… Okay, so it wasn’t exactly stormy, just a light gusty breeze, but it was dark and late. Finally, after a thirty minute commute from my local chapter meeting, I pulled into my garage, a little road weary and at the same time overjoyed I actually made it back [...]