Reading Through the 2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge
Image Source: Popsugar Photography Reading is essential to writing. Every writer began his or her career as a reader. In the last few years, I haven’t done as much reading as I used to do....
View ArticleI'm Not Mary Sue. My Name Is Denise.
NOT MARY SUE!Her name is Mary Sue. She’s a time and space traveler, zipping from book to book, scene to scene, unmindful of physics. The woman is disdained throughout the literary world because Mary...
View ArticleWhy I Pulled the Plug On My Twitter Account
True confession time. I didn’t create my Twitter account for the purpose of social interaction. There, I said it...or um...wrote it. No, I opened the account for the purpose of selling books. I know....
View ArticleAdventures In Charleston, South Carolina
I needed ideas and inspiration. River Road Hauntings was complete, but I didn't want the Haunted Hearts series to end. So where could I take my readers next? The next locale for the series had to be a...
View ArticleA Few of My Favorite Things
Here it is halfway through another year, and I wonder where the months went and what have I accomplished so far this year. It’s been a busy year already. I knew it would be. The first four and a half...
View ArticleMy NOT Bucket List
Ever since Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson created a wish list of things they wanted to do before they kicked the bucket, people have talked, dreamed, blogged, posted, and written about their Bucket...
View ArticleHow I Fell in Love With Day Hiking
It was 1987, and my husband and I were excited to go on our first trip together to Colorado. I’d been in love with the Rocky Mountains since I was a little girl. My parents had visited there before I...
View ArticleFive Things I Love About Fall
It’s Fall ya’ll, or at least, our version of it. Here in north Louisiana we have four seasons: pre-summer, summer, deep summer, and summer-isn’t-over-yet summer. Winter? What’s that? There have been...
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