Just found out that school is cancelled for the next three weeks for my kids. Maybe more. Does it feel like every day the world rattles and what was normal isn’t anymore? In 1989, I was working at a retail job when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck during the middle

Not many people know the story of how I became a full-time author. It’s a story about setting goals, failing, trying again, trying new things, failing again, sticking with it. It’s full of twists and turns, a lot like my novels. For years I have wanted to tell the story,

Thank you for stopping by. I wanted to share some news first of all. The last short story I’ve written about Ankarette from the Kingfountain series will be coming out in a stand-alone Kindle version. She’s one of my all-time favorite characters and a fan favorite as well. In fact,

You know, short stories have been on my brain recently. I invited my bud Charlie Holmberg here to blog about them a few months ago. I also finished reading, for the first time, Stephen King’s memoir “On Writing” and he had some really practical advice to new writers about starting

I’m pleased to announce a guest blog today from my good friend Charlie N Holmberg. She and I taught a class together last spring at the Storymakers 2018 conference called “The Anatomy of a Short Story“. She’s a great presenter and we had a lot of fun delivering the class

In the author’s note at the end of The Poisoner’s Enemy, I promised to write one more story about one of my all-time favorite characters–Ankarette Tryneowy, the Queen’s Poisoner. I’m pleased to announce that it ended up being more than a short story, more like a novella, and it will