Reading slumps. They aren’t any fun. Especially if you usually enjoy reading. So how do you get out of a reading slump? I’m sure there are many ways, but here are some ideas that might help you. First things first. Reading slumps can come from a numb...

If you have been reading my posts for a while you might wonder if this is going to be a very short post. I’m a pantser. I rarely know where my stories are going when I start them. So, if I write “by the seat of my pants” how in the world do I outline...

Some people have asked me if my stories ever evolve into something different than I was expecting. Or if my stories ever change as I’m writing them. Sometimes they do slightly, other times quite a bit. Did you want to see what the changes for one sto...

I wrote 60k words in one month. That was in March. I’ve never written that much in a month before and didn’t really think I could ever do it. I mean, that’s practically writing an entire novel in a month! That’s just crazy! But I did it. And I learne...

There are some things that irritate me a little when I read. And there are some things that bug me a bit. And there are other things that drive me crazy and might mean I rant to someone about them even if I liked the rest of the book. So this year I’...

Yesterday was my birthday. I wanted to do something fun, like a tag! I found this one on Kate Willis’s delightful blog, and since it looked fun, I decided I’d grab it.. Count your birthday along your bookshelf and then subtract your birth month. Whic...

Writing. A lot of that happened last month. Actually, I wrote about 3 months worth of words just last month. Yep, I was able to get 60,000 words written in March. That’s about as many words as are in a Triple Creek Ranch book! But no, I didn’t write...

You have stacks of books to read. Library books. TBR books that never seem to go away. There are beta books, ARC copies to read and review, and yet . . . Life is busy! So busy! How do you find time to read too? Today I’d like to share some tips about...

There are so many different authors that I like. Some are modern, many are not. Some have only written a few books while others have written almost a hundred. There are authors who write just one genre, and there are others who write different genres...

Sometimes you just need a quick read. One that is clean, fun, exciting, and satisfies the desire to get a book read. Enter Fast Food Books. There’s nothing wrong with such books. I enjoy them, but sometimes too much of them is like eating too much fa...