I’d like to invite you into the magical, sometimes frightening beginnings of the realm of Ring-witches and dragons–the world of Nesht. Meet Mayra, a powerful Ring-Witch who has been raised an adventurer as a reever, the king’s formidable enforcers. After many years, she finds herself seeking new adventures on her horizon. But for the present,…

Sometimes I wish I had a typewriter again. Or a moveable type printing press of my own that I could hook up to Amazon and be on my way. At this time, I’m not a fan of Word! We were having mini wars and major battles galore! And Word was winning! I’m working on Chapter…

I had a nice laptop, it was silver, with nice silver and gray keys, and that should have been my first warning. It was slick, with lots of bells and whistles (yes, the second warning), and it hated me. That should always be a signal. We as writers develop relationships with our computers and get…

​Fantasy writers are unique in that they take a flat piece of paper, build a world on it, then populate that world all the way down to the size of the points on an elf’s ears. Swear words, pets, fashion, politics, and what’s for dinner–we create it all. It’s a true work of love!  My…

“Summerbird’s Quest” is undergoing edit now (by me–eek!), and what an undertaking it is! I admit it’s difficult to take a knife blade to one’s own work, but every time I find something to fix, I seem to come up with another thing to fix that I think will make it better. And…you guessed it,…

I’m done shopping! So happy, however, my fingers are so tired from all that Christmas shopping! Yes, I am an impersonal, lazy, online shopper. In the last few years, I have found it quite difficult to handle the crowds in stores. I get all shaky and nervous, then all sweaty and nasty. I finally have to…

In a recent post from Doctor MC, an author whom I follow, he says, “Lastly, fantasy means a simplified story. To explain what I mean by this, I have to tell you what a “story” is.” And he goes on to define the term story. If you follow me or my blog, you know that my books are primarily…

I’m so happy to release the cover of “Summerbird’s Quest,” which will come out sometime in mid 2018. Thanks so much Adriana Musetti Dávila, for your talented, hard work! This manuscript is completed and I’m in the process of editing it so it might come out earlier (I hope!). Don’t forget, Book 1, “Summerbird’s Rise,” is…

How many writers have ever jumped up in the middle of writing a scene and acted it out? You speak the words–if multiple parts so much the better! You go through the motions, express the emotions, use the proper facial expressions, perhaps even try out multiple ones that might better match a specific tone or words.…

Book Viral’s Magical Layout – Click Here!  Please open my link and discover a page done for Dragon Rings that has me singing their praises! It’s beautiful and I’m so hoping it introduces my books to others who will walk into the world of Nesht and come out loving dragons as much as I do.…

“Summerbird Rises” has been thoroughly edited and is once again available for sale on Amazon, as I continue to edit “Summerbird’s Quest” which is Book 2, of An Act of Entreaty. I’ve gotten quite a few requests for the second book, everyone wants to know what happened to that crazy Miffin Griffin; was Summerbird able…

Updated 01/05/2018 His name is Smok, he’s a dragonlet, and he’s a pale color. The females Witches love him, the males…not so much. And the dragons see him as vermin–all he does is eat and sleep; he can’t even communicate with them. Or can he? Nothing is as it seems, when a wee dragon shows…

  My second book, Dragon Rings, is now out on Amazon. I had so much fun writing it that the second book is already brewing in my head and on my laptop. Everything about it was enjoyable–world building, populating that world, creating characters and so on–until I got toward the end and had to decide what…

Let me start by saying e-publishing is wonderful. It is fun and a very satisfying way to get my work out there and cut out the vicious, grasping middlemen called publishers/editors. Sorry to all you p/e, just sayin’… But then… we come to my first experience. If there is a way to screw something up,…

A Day to Day Observation of our Cruise to South America. I was going to rewrite some of it because I was so bitchy, but decided to leave it as is. If we had a miserable time, it serves as an expensive lesson learned. But it does prove we need to try a cruise line…

I rarely, rarely refer to myself as a Baby Boomer, because I hate the phrase. But I so identify with many of their “characteristics” such as rock & roll, accepting the differences of my fellow persons, the commonality of divorce, leaving the past and looking for an exciting future,  and finally, the birth of the…

I retired at a relatively early age (mid-50s). We had, as my Beloved Spouse so eloquently put it, lived like animals for 20+ years so that we could pay off our house and cars, and live happily on a somewhat reduced pension. And so I left behind the unusual world of working for the Federal…

Be a new means of communication for me. Probably drive me crazy. Hopefully, be amusing, enlightening, and insightful. Um…for me; you, maybe not so much. Teach me more about the world of on-line-ing. I guess. Deliver my unique and lighthearted musings, observations and counsel to the world at large. Help hook me up with even…