The Writing Process: Outline or Hope and Grope?
The Carolina's Largest Festival of Books and Authors I had the pleasure once again of attending the annual Book Marks Festival in downtown Winston...
Read MoreThe Carolina's Largest Festival of Books and Authors I had the pleasure once again of attending the annual Book Marks Festival in downtown Winston...
Read MoreI've been off the grid from blogging for the past two months, completing my new novel, In the Fullness of Time. My goal was...
Read MoreA Story Made for TV In my last blog, Historical Backdrop: The Facts Beneath the Story, I wrote about Ben Tillman and his opposition to...
Read MoreHistorical Background I've been reading to gain knowledge about the social and political climate in the post war South to understand why the Woman...
Read MoreWoman Suffrage Movement 1913-1920 I've been reading extensively on the woman suffrage movement between the years of 1913 and 1920, as those dates correspond...
Read MoreDeveloping a Strong and Independent Main Character One of the challenges I find in writing women's historical fiction is that of developing a main...
Read MoreSouthern Writers Love to Tell Stories About Themselves At the Winston-Salem Bookmarks Festival on Saturday, I arrived early to get a seat for the...
Read MoreKeynote Speaker for Festival of Books and Authors 2015 I had the pleasure of hearing David Baldacci speak last night at the keynote opening event...
Read MoreFirst You Tell It. Then You Know It In my last post, writers-block, I mentioned that I was suffering from writer's block and that I...
Read MoreTerminal Case of Writer's Block My second historical novel is in progress. For lack of a working title, I'm calling it Novel #2. I've...
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