As 2011 comes to a close, I find myself resembling the remark, “the hurrier I go, the behinder I get,” and I have to wonder why. Is it me, or is life spinning past us at a faster pace than we’ve ever known before? Or is there just more work to do? Back in the [...]

Everything you think you know about vampires is wrong… That’s what urban fantasy heroine and struggling actress Esther Diamond discovers in her latest misadventure, Vamparazzi, while playing a vampire victim in a (fictional) stage adapation of The Vampyre, a (real) neglected gothic classic, as well as being hounded by wanna-be vampires, pestered by a fake [...]

I describe the  newest release in my Esther Diamond urban fantasy series (and, no, you don’t need to read the books in chronological order to understand what’s going on) as a vampire book for people who don’t like vampire books. Esther is a struggling actress in New York City who gets involved in various paranormal [...]

We were talking at my local RWA chapter about what we needed in order to get to the next level in our writing careers, and one lady summed it up with a mournful, “Time.”  It makes me think of the riddles in the dark scene from the Hobbit, where Bilbo can’t think of an answer [...]