As I take part in my storytelling process I hope to leave some space for the readers’ imagination to run wild. The emotional journey of...

We are all, inherently, part of the Earth we call home. Recently in my new temporary home in the Smoky Mountains, I am paying attention...

My book is back and I am raring to go. I have work for others before I delve in, but in reading and editing for them has been incredibly...

Is my writing sacred? Is my writing time? I allow myself to acknowledge that people may not understand that I am passionate about my...

Every new blogger thinks they're going to be the next big thing that sets the blogging world on fire. We all leap in and start hammering...

This amazing writer brought so much joy to my children, students, and grandchildren. As they sat next to me, at my knee, in a circle of...

"Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers...

Neil Gaiman, one of my very favorite wordsmiths said this: "The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't...

I am still waiting patiently on my editor and her slow healing, so need to keep busy with my passion as a wordsmith. I have been blessed...

The last ten days have been a whirlwind of adventures with my Northern family, visiting us here in the south. I hold my granddaughter's...

I’ve been thinking about my responsibility to you as my readers, and that got me to thinking about universes. Not the kind that surround...

From the moment I learned to form words on paper, I turned to the page whenever I had heavy things to deal with, writing diary/journal...

I write because I want to reach the end of my imagination and then break through it. Writing helps me lose or find myself, depending on...

I’ve always been obsessed with stories and how they are written and rewritten. I have considered myself a writer for a very long time....

As I wait patiently for my last edit to come back..A lot of people aren't able to look past the dragons and sword-fighting,( which I love...

My manuscript is headed for the final editing stage and I am at the edge of my desk chair just anxious to getting it digitalized and...

The young man she met briefly the night before, was standing above her. His long black hair lying straight down his back, piercing blue...

Conall Leeway sits opposite her in the circle. His shining eyes avert as she meets them. He again looks back at her and the fire dances...

Orla’s Story “The Sorbus tree is an ancient tree of our world. It is considered the threshold, between this world and otherworld, or...

Words spoken from Orla the ancient, to Lyla the Dark. "Your journey ahead is far harder than the journey past."