Category Archives: My Thoughts

Over the past week, I read The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, which was published in 2003, and made into a film starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in 2009. I would first like to say that the book … Continue reading →

Last night was the third annual Christmas Party and Read-a-Thon for the authors/writers group I help oversee here in town: Writers and Scribblers. The group is open to anyone, and people join and quit the organization all the time. We … Continue reading →

            My book club chose the historical fiction novel The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters (published in September 2014) as our November read. My book club meets tonight to discuss this book, so I’m ordering my thoughts … Continue reading →

My last blog post about race and science fiction detailed my reaction to this picture taken from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I —           and I have good news to share! I did not see … Continue reading →

I finished writing Book I of Mark of the Pterren today, and it felt like such a HUGE win — because I was madly scribbling the last scene while getting my oil changed at Jiffy Lube here in Durango this … Continue reading →

Thanks to my friend Adriana Arbogast’s husband, Paul Arbogast, my author blog now has a title: Thought Candy. And a cool new graphic to go with my blog page’s sugary goodness. This. Is. AWESOME!!! I am so thankful to Paul for doing … Continue reading →

I’ve spent another week being Really Good — as in, not reading Voyager, the third Outlander book, and working on my sci-fi novel instead. I’m doing one big, massive edit on the entire novel, which is around 733 pages long, and … Continue reading →

I’ve dedicated every spare second I have this week to working on my sci-fi novel, Mark of the Pterren. I’ve done another intense round of editing to the first 300 pages — and I can’t count the number of times I’ve edited those … Continue reading →

I have such great news today!! It’s here!!! Catherine Ryan Howard’s completely revised, completely updated, and completely new Bible of the Self-Publishing world, Self-Printed: The Sane Person’s Guide to Self-Publishing (3rd Edition), is out now in paperback and ebook and available from … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading Mark Edmundson’s short memoir Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game, which was published this fall.             Mark Edmundson teaches in the English Department at the University of Virginia. He’s published numerous … Continue reading →