The Highs and Lows of Being an Author

Having just come off my first “Cyber Book Launch” on Facebook for World Enough and Crime, it’s time to mentally prepare for my very first LIVE book launch at Toronto bookstore, the Sleuth of Baker Street. I have to admit something here, though. I...

Bake, Love, Write

When Lois Winston, author of the Anastasia Pollack crafting mysteries, sent the callout for authors looking to participate in a dessert cookbook that would also include advice on love and writing, my first thought was, “sounds like a great fun, but I’m...

Learning to Sprint

I participated in SavvyAuthor’s Summer Writing Boot Camp in July. The goal: write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. To save you from having to do the math, that equals 1,613 words a day. Now as someone who tends to write, revise and research as I go along (with the...