Transitions by Karla Brandenburg It’s back to school time again. Parents everywhere are celebrating or bemoaning their quiet houses once again. For some, back to school means getting back on schedule. For some, an empty nest means adjusting to the quiet. As silly as it sounds, when my kids went to college, despite the fact […]
Hitting the Road by Tina Whittle In a few weeks, I’ll be offering a new novella featuring my series protagonists Tai and Trey. “Creature Comforts” is technically an epilogue, continuing a minor story line from the sixth novel, Necessary Ends, to its…well, necessary end. In that book, Trey lost a bet, and as forfeit he […]
What Do Authors Read? by Terry Odell I’m dipping into our reader questions again this month. One reader says: “I love when authors read books. I’d like to know what genres an author reads. If they have a favorite, or least favorite book. If they have never not finished a book and why.” Speaking for […]
Autumn—Beginnings and Endings by James M. Jackson In the circle of life, endings and beginnings often overlap. Which aspect we focus on depends on our perspective at the moment. Although the calendar marks the end of summer and beginning of autumn in the third week of September, for me that demarcation occurs at the beginning […]
Happily Ever After by Karla Brandenburg My son just got married! As the mother of the groom, I have the easy job this time around, and his wife is a charming, lovely woman. I couldn’t be happier for the both of them as I wish them their happily ever after. To get into the proper […]
Breaking Bread by Tina Whittle In addition to the usual holidays celebrated in the US, my family and I celebrate the Wheel of the Year. This calendar combines ancient feasts and holy days from the Anglo-Saxons and other Indo-European cultures and follows the agricultural cycle from the first plantings in the spring, through the various […]
Where do Ideas Grow? by Terry Odell Based on my post last April, when I asked readers what they’d like to ask authors, the most common question was “Where do you get your ideas?” I don’t know about any other authors, but I just go out to my yard and pick one off my idea […]
The Right Tool for the Job by James M. Jackson Growing up, I learned everything my father could teach me about repairs, which is to say almost nothing. Dad was a classical absent-minded professor, much more interested in ideas than in fixing stuff. Because I had a habit of breaking windows (boys will be boys), […]
Happy Birthday! by Karla Brandenburg What? It isn’t your birthday? Well, mine is this week, and with it comes the dilemma of “what do you want for your birthday?” As I get older, there are fewer things that I haven’t already bought/will buy for myself, so when someone asks me that question, I have to […]
Short Idylls by Tina Whittle One of my favorite things to write is short stories and their slightly longer cousins, novelettes and novellas. Writing a book is an all-consuming endeavor, and when life has piled a lot on my plate, I enjoy a writing project that I can dip a toe in whenever I have a […]
