“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.” ~~Ernest Hemingway. I always wonder if the truly great writers struggle to put words on paper, or if it’s just such a natural part of them that the stories just flow like water from the...

I’m so excited to welcome Sparkley Abbey to A Writer’s House this week. Sparkle Abbey is the pseudonym of mystery authors Mary Lee Woods and Anita Carter. They’ve chosen to use Sparkle Abbey as their pen name on this series because they liked the idea of combining the...

I’m pleased to welcome author Ashley M. Burner to A Writer’s House this week. Ashley’s hot new romance, Twisted Candy, comes out Friday and I have the great privilege of kicking off her release today. After the interview, don’t miss the excerpt from this steamy,...

There have been many articles written about plotting (planning) vs pantsing (seat of the pants). Typically, I’m a planner. I have oodles of charts and graphs and questionnaires that I work on before starting a new story. I find pictures that capture what I think my...

I have confessed via Twitter to being a secret Anglophile. It’s not a huge obsession but I have a certain level of interest with all things Princess Diana. I was a hopeless teenage romantic when she came into the spotlight. I was in Alaska when she got married and...

I am working on a romance story and trying not to kill people. No, not REAL people. Imaginary people. I primarily write romantic suspense and this is a straight romance but that mystery element keeps poking its head into my story. Even in the first book of this...

I went to a liberal arts college, a place that’s supposedly deeply connected to the humanities. In my freshman lit class, we read Beowulf and were asked to re-write the story as part of a final exam. Imagine that! The professor (aka the evil professor) encouraged me...

My head is still spinning to tell the truth. So much is happening that I can't seem to get ahead much less do the writing I need to be doing. I'm working hard on getting book 2 together but it's not coming together as quickly as I would like. I guess I never really...