I have a lot of things I could say about this subject, but this blog post hits on everything I’ve suspected and some conclusions I arrived at on my own without the experience — the point about how publishing controls
Why I Wrote The Voices Upstairs
This was the second book I ever wrote, and until recently, my least favorite. At the time I came up with the idea, I was reading about a murder case from the late 1920s where the murderer was schizophrenic, claiming
Why I Wrote The Good Daughter
Oh, brother, where to start? Many years ago, I realized I had a narcissist in my life and began studying narcissism to understand how to deal with said person. I found an old cassette tape with a couple of songs
Why I Wrote Doll Parts
This was a treadmill idea, meaning I got it while walking on the treadmill. It was meant to be released as a series of connected short stories (a serial, which were popular at the time) in which a doll army
Why I Wrote There I am in Pieces Again
There’s a decade of my life I would love to forget. It broke me. When I moved away from the situation, I didn’t know if I would ever be the same again. But after a short time away, emotions, in
Why I Wrote Ricki Rydell
The next five or so blog posts will be about why I wrote the books I did. What was the motivation? Where did the idea come from? That sort of thing. I like reading about why authors write their books,
Eat It…a writing exercise
I was looking for something in my filing cabinet and came across a folder full of my old writing from when I first started writing with an eye toward publication. Like any or most new writers, you’ll do anything to
Mistakes I Made On My Self-publishing Journey
Because this past week has been strange and yesterday was a very emotional day for most of the nation, I’m just going to get right to the point. These are some of the mistakes or missteps I made on my
5 Reasons I Chose to Self-publish
Why I Chose to Self-publish: This post is many years after the fact, but I had always wanted to blog about why I chose to go the self-publishing route. But after many years into this journey, I understand more of
How to Subscribe to my Website
I found a short article about how to subscribe to this site, or any site for that matter, through the RSS feed. SUBSCRIBING TO FEEDS Since I plan on blogging more this year, if you want to keep up-to-date on