This past Sunday, I had the honor of participating in a Harry Potter birthday celebration at the Caramel Crisp Corner in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For those of you who don’t know, this fine establishment is a combination bakery, café serving coffee drinks...

Does a dragon hoard treasure? Do fantasy authors dwell upon other worlds? And now that I’m done asking rhetorical questions, I have so many book recommendations for you, and not much to say otherwise. A Quick Update Revisions on Wyldling Trials conti...

No! I refuse. No romantic subplots. No love triangles. No teenagers wallowing, mooning, swooning, and otherwise moping about over a love interest for entire chapters. There’s too many YA books out there like that, and I want to write something differ...

An Author’s Work is Never Done? Hooray! I’m officially on vacation… from the day job. However, my work as an author is ongoing. It’s a labor of love, though. You’d be amazed how much editing and revising you can accomplish as a passenger in a vehicle...

Yes, I open with a shameless fruit-flavored candy reference. June is Pride Month, so I felt I needed to fit a rainbow in there, somewhere. I hope your June is full of sweetness, rainbows, and happily-ever-after. As for me, my husband and I planned a...

Where Would You Like to Go? As for me, I’d like to go to a seaside resort with a nice sandy beach and clement weather. I hope all the mothers out there had an amazing Mother’s Day weekend. My eldest son left me a very sweet voicemail message saying “...

Greetings, friend. Wow! April flew by quickly, didn’t it? I hope it was a good month for you. I can’t believe it’s May already. And tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo! Time to slice up a lime, crack open a Corona (I mean the beer brand; NOT the virus), and pr...

Fellow author Huckleberry Rahr and yours truly hitched a ride on an obliging green dragon to Menomonie, Wisconsin, where Ann Vogl, Chief Dragon-rider, holds down the fort at a lovely independent bookstore called Dragon Tale Books. Intermittent rainfa...

That sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn’t it? A pixie and an ogre walk into a bookstore… However, you were probably expecting me to make a joke about a bar. As a matter of fact, I planned to tell you about a bar – AND a bookstore – in Sheboyg...

Have you ever felt like time was slipping away too quickly? It reminds me of the refrain from a ‘70s song by Steve Miller, “Fly Like an Eagle.” The older I get, the more these lyrics resonate. I blink, and an entire week has passed. I wake up one mor...