We just made it home - Date: June 1989 - Place: RAF Laarbruch, Germany. My friend Chris and I had booked leave together as I was going to my parents in Clevedon and he was going to his at Symonds Yat in Monmouthshire. Only a few minutes over the Severn bridge. Chris’s Rover had just come back [...]
Half of this oversize red leather bound Liber Novis (New Life) is devoted almost half to C.G. Jung’s Oil and Watercolor fantasy painting out of his awake conscious explorations. Although the first half of the book with the majority of the paintings is in German, the second half of the book is in English. I [...]
With the calendar turning yet again from December to January, it is an appropriate time to consider the derivation of our word for the new month. Why January? In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus was the god of beginnings and transitions. He was often portrayed as a two-faced deity since he looks backward to [...]
In honor of our military men and women who are returning home, I wanted to post my article on women in the army. “I am a soldier too.” - You may remember those poignant words spoken by Jessica Lynch of the U.S. Army’s 507Th Maintenance Company when her rescuers came to get her from the Iraqi [...]
Ask yourselves this; what do you want to write about? If you’re literary goal is fiction, can you exist on next to nothing in the way of money and virtually become a recluse, deliberately shutting yourself off from everything you know to achieve your goal. If you still answered yes then read on… *** Since [...]
It seems that way! Although I do work full time at a day job, and I am writing werewolf romances on deadline, and I am writing other books for my own pleasure–hunky Highlanders, the dark fae (YA–The World of Fae series), vampire romance, time travel twists, you name it, I write it. And I make award-winning [...]
I wish you all a Merry Christmas or Happy Whatever You Celebrate and for 2012, I share my secret to being a happy person–I associate with happy people! Honestly, it is that simple– Back in 1982 during my first year of clowning I did birthday parties, taught clowning at ———— Community College, and invented a [...]
If you literary leanings are towards writing full-time, you have to become totally obsessive with each project. You have no other choice, if you want it to work on all levels. At this moment in time, my mind is completely given over to writing an anthology of sequential short stories for the five fictional characters [...]
We were in a house trailer just outside the Lindreth trading post, in northwest New Mexico. There were six of us on the hunt that year: My Dad and I; Morris – Dad’s best friend, and his son Brad; Don – who owned the trailer and was to be our guide, and his son Chris. [...]
Like the eternal question, ‘what does it mean to be human?’ today’s blog is about a less eternal but no less fascinating, at least for me, question, what does it mean to be an author at a time when the industry is undergoing such upheaval? There is no publishing industry crystal ball we can look [...]
