Not long ago, I had a chance to attend a presentation by Barry Longyear, the famed science fiction writer and author of Enemy Mine, among other things.  His topic was how to cope with the volume of research and development that goes into a historical/paranormal world.  I won’t tell you what he’s working on, but it will be [...]

SPEAKING YOUR STORY by Vickie Jenkins First let me THANK YOU ALL for creating stories that entertain us! I’m blogging today to help you break through—not ‘writer’s block’ but ‘speakers block.’ One of the things an author struggles with is how to take those pages and pages of material that you spent days, months and [...]

An odd topic for September? Yes, isn’t it? Here’s why I chose it. Today is release day, always an exciting time for an author. But . . . hmm . . . this release, on September 28, is for a Christmas anthology (The Naughty List, with novellas by Donna Kauffman, Cynthia Eden, and me wearing [...]

I’m an avowed and quite possibly obsessed Johnny Depp fangirl. I’ve had a deep and abiding lust for the man since his slick-haired 21 Jump Street days. I’m sure I’d have been a fan of his earlier work – Nightmare on Elm Street, but I covered my face about the time he was gobbled up [...]