First of all, do you know how hard it is to find a picture of a juggler that isn’t a bit scary? I didn’t think jugglers were creepy, not like clowns, anyway. But go to the royalty-free sites, and you’ll find some seriously disturbing juggling going on. But that doesn’t speak to the topic at [...]

I should know better. I do, actually. I’ve long since made it a point not to write a series. I always thought it was just because I was impatient. I mean, I’m an old trauma nurse. We bore easily. So I figured, ‘when I’m finished with this book, I’m ready to meet somebody new.’ I’ve [...]

For a while there, I thought I would never be able to say these four words. I finished my book. I kept seeing all these people posting on Facebook, like I should be happy for them that they’d typed that magical The End on their screens and closed their laptops, comfortable in the knowledge that [...]

Sigh. that’s how I think of a middle of a book. Just. Sigh. If you think of it, writing a book is like a love affair. You sense it first in the distance, something faint and alluring and seductive. Something that calls to your soul. Once you see it–really see it–you can’t think of anything [...]