Just wanted to let everyone know that my guest blog post is up at The Novel Approach. I’m doing a giveaway there for Oliver & Jack: At Lodgings In Lyme, and all you have to do is leave a comment to enter. I had a good time talking about my obsession with Oliver Twist and Jack […]
Guest Blog Post at Joyfully Jay
During the count-down period before the GayRomLit Retreat, I was able to sign up at three blogs to do guest blog posts and get some reviews for my most recent book, Oliver & Jack: At Lodgings In Lyme. It’s been kind of fun writing blog posts for so specific an audience, and I hope the […]
I’d Do Anything For You, Dear, Anything
Yesterday, June 11, 2015, Ron Moody passed away. This makes me quite sad in ways that I really am unable to discuss out loud. So I thought I’d write down some of those thoughts instead. For those of you who don’t know, Ron Moody was most famous for his role of Fagin, in both the London […]
When Words Mean
As a writer, I have a vested interest in words. In what they mean, in how they are used, in how they are interpreted, because words are potent and powerful tools that, when used (either rightly or wrongly) can resonate so deeply, it goes down to the bone. So when I find music that does […]
Cups Song in Galic
So I finished Camp NaNoWriMo (the April version of NaNoWriMo, which happens in November) in fine style with a total of 60,233 words. This is well over the goal of 50K. And to what do I owe this miracle? Well, to start with I had a hand-written outline that I’d revised three times until everything […]
Rhode Hill House
Currently, my editor has Book #2 in the Oliver & Jack series, and I thought it might be fun to share some of the research that I did for that book, mostly with fun pictures or maps. Nothing tedious that a reader might have to slog through because, as I have often been told, not […]