UNBREAKABLE
Berkley Heat
02/05/2013

UNDENIABLE
Berkley Heat
10/02/2012

THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
a novella in
HOLIDAY KISSES
Carina Press 12/11


TWENTY-ONE HOURS
a short story in
SEAL OF MY DREAMS
Bell Bridge Books 11/11


AT HIS MERCY
Digital Edition 05/11


PLAYING LOVE'S ODDS
Digital Edition 04/11

LOVE ME TENDER
Digital Edition 12/10


LOVE IN BLOOM
Digital Edition 11/10


THE ICING ON THE CAKE
HCI Vows 10/10

Write Page-Turning Scenes
21 Ways to Get Writing
Writing Discipline
Create A Plot Clinic
Way of the Cheetah
Create A Character Clinic
Vision Writing Workshops

How to Think Sideways Career Survival School for Writers

"Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs."
~ Michael Chabon


"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." ~Louis L'Amour


"As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall." ~Virginia Woolf


"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." ~C.S. Lewis


"The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative."
~Doris Lessing


"Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Reading is the creative center of a writer's life."
~Stephen King


"You know, I'm a storyteller. We are storytellers. And ours is an ancient tradition, contemporized by the cinema and the capturing of light. And we should all be very proud of our place in society. On any given night, millions of people across the world buy a ticket for adventures that only we as storytellers can provide. We release burdens, we galvanize emotions, we make people laugh, we make people talk over breakfast. This is a great job and I want to encourage every one of you in this room to give everything you can to the story. God bless narrative. God bless originality."
~Russell Crowe
2002 SAG Award Winner


"When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
~Kurt Vonnegut


"Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done."
~Anne Lamott


"America is now wholly given over to a d****d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
~Hawthorne's 1855 letter to his publisher William D. Ticknor, quoted in Pattee, Fred L. The Feminine Fifties. NY: Appleton-Century Co., 1940. p. 110.

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