Photo by Gerax Sotelo on Unsplash “My Mother Had Me Sort the Eyes.” Isn’t that a wonderful opening line? This is how Elizabeth Graver started one of her works. After reading those seven words, it’s nearly impossible to stop reading. Is this a horror story? Or a story about making dolls or planting potatoes? The …
No, I’ve not bought myself some new pets. While I’m enjoying the spring flowers and warmer weather, I’m not thrilled with the birds using my front porch as a public restroom. Not wanting to use traps or poison or anything noisy, I thought I’d resort to trickery instead. Hence the plastic snakes sunning themselves on …
Last month I dove into research, looking for seeds of inspiration for worldbuilding for the yet-to-be-named world for my new series. Now that I’ve uncovered all kinds of fun stuff to work into the books, I’m working on plotting out the second book in the series. Sometimes I surprise myself at the direction the story …