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Sweet Sounds of Summer
Since our move back to Wyoming, life has been very interesting. We’ve had an epic winter for snow (been thirty years…the last time we visited in the winter…hmmmm…) and much Life Happening. But the other night when I opened the windows and I heard the sound of the sprinklers going, I was carried back to…
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Remembering Why I Wrote Girl Gone Nova
So I finished The Key, aka The Big A** Book, with no plans to write more science fiction romance (you might recall that I didn’t know I’d written SFR at that point. I thought I’d written a) an action adventure that just happened to be set in space; b) a really, really long novel I…
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Not Quite Fan Mail #BirdsCanBeBitter
So, the word is out that Found Girl, has flamingos in there. I got a lovely thank you note from a flamingo. Dear Author, Good job. Yours on one leg, Chilean Flamingo But some other birds are pushing back. Here are some of the comments I’m getting from birds (translated for your convenience, of course):…
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Choosing Peace Amidst Chaos
“Peace of mind, peace of conscience, and peace of heart are not determined by our ability to avoid trials, sorrow, or heartache. Despite our sincere pleas, not every storm will change course, not every infirmity will be healed…” W. Christopher Waddel I was browsing the hubs feed to find a picture for my blog and saw…
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Revisiting Why Greta van der Rol Wrote Kuralon Rescue
I’m dialing things back this summer, so I’ll be doing more revisits of past “Why She Wrote” posts, just in case you missed them the first time. Here’s a fun one from a wonderful author, Greta van der Rol: My motives for writing my latest novel, Kuralon Rescue, evolved. I wanted to write a new…
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Lessons from the Trees
Trees have always fascinated me. When I was little (before I developed a fear of heights), I used to climb as high as I could and then sway in the wind. It was a deliciously free feeling, to be so high, as if I were part of the sky and wind. I loved the…
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A “Flamboyance” of Flamingo Stuff
If you’ve hung around my Facebook page at all, then you will start to notice my love affair with flamingos and flamingo kitsch. My sister and I have tried to figure out why the flamingo love and all we can attribute it to is our exposure to the lawn art when we were little. Haha…
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How To How-to
When one of my daughter’s was very small, she asked me, “How do you know things, mom?” That’s a huge question. And it was hard to answer in the pre-Google days. Back when you needed to know, for instance, how to not get stepped on by a dinosaur. Back when the only way to learn…
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Scaling the Novel Heights
So, if you follow my author profile, you may have noticed that I haven’t released a novel in a while, other than my short story in Pets in Space (which is now off sale!). In fact, after checking my Amazon Author page, I see I haven’t released a wholly new, only by me project since…
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Why Diana Reep Wrote Kiss’d
I’m happy to talk about the origin of Kiss’d, a YA romantic adventure. I’ve always been fascinated by history and how ordinary people dealt with tumultuous events. My favorite time period is turn-of-the-century 1900, and the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I triggered an idea for a time-travel romance. After researching the…