A Bitter Tinge

If you’ll excuse the rather personal post today… Tomorrow is my daughter’s first birthday and I am angry. Not with her, she’s such a delight and it’s very hard to remember sometimes that she’s not actually even a year old because she doesn’t act like it, but with how the events surrounding her birth unfolded.…

My Gripe with Crime Shows

I enjoy crime shows. It’s somewhat of a guilty pleasure. Who doesn’t enjoy Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle on, well, Castle, making snide remarks and terrible jokes and being generally a rather poor substitute for Captain Malcolm Reynolds? I’ll happily forgive the premise that a writer accompanying police on investigations, busts and interrogations is slightly…

An Unlikely Story

I’ve never been one for YA type books, even when I was of the age to find them relevant to me. I wasn’t a typical teenager so I never bothered reading about them because typical teenagers filled me with disdain (yes, I was one of those snobs). While watching television the other night, lamenting the…

2012!

Greetings and salutations to you, the precious few who still actually read this 🙂 I have dusted off the old WIP and am now sitting at tens of thousands of words. I’ve handwritten the entire story in note form, which has actually been quite beneficial. It’s not something I usually do and it’s probably the…