Free Louder Than Love Excerpt!

Greetings, all! My brain is still a bit scrambled after an exhilarating, exhausting and utterly amazing first experience at the RWA National Conference in Atlanta last week. But I wanted to share the happy news that you can check out the first three chapters of Louder...

Swag More, Bark Less

A good friend of mine recently became a black belt in karate.  She’s a mild-mannered, unruffled Type-B personality with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude who began taking classes after her young daughter and her husband enrolled. It began as a social excuse for...

Magicicada…and the Writer’s Cycle

If you live along the Eastern US Coast, chances are you are bracing for an invasion of apocalyptic proportions. I’m talking about the plague of 17-year locusts. “As if from some horror movie, cicada nymphs have been described as ‘boiling out of the...

As the dust settles…reflections

We Arrived. We Blogged. We Conquered. Congrats to my fellow A to Zers who made it through the alphabet in April! This was my second year attempting, and completing, the Challenge. I feel a little wiser and well-traveled after having made the journey. In my 2012...

Y is for… Yodeladies

I’m a chick (as you know). I work for a band called moe. (you might have heard me mention them). I go to rock shows. How could I NOT dedicate my Y day to the Yodeladies? Yodeladies is a women-led association of individuals who actively promote a friendly and...