Here is a sampling of several articles, essays and blog posts I've written. I hope they'll shed a little light on the writing process and the writer's life:

"Traditional vs. Self-Publishing, Critique Groups, and the Eternal Jane Austen" ~Word Café, February 28, 2013

"When You Don't Get What You Think You Want" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, February 26, 2013

"The Pride and Prejudice Beat Sheet" ~ Save the Cat/Blake Snyder, January 18, 2013

"In Defense of Vanilla Sex & Fiction That's Not So Edgy" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, November 14, 2012

"A Change is Gonna Come" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, September 23, 2012

"My Five Gifts to Aspiring Writers" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, April 3, 2012

"Owning Our Strengths" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, January 30, 2012

"At the Desk: With Marilyn Brant" ~ Reader's Entertainment, January 30, 2012

"A Love Letter to Reviewers" ~ Austen Authors, October 10, 2011

"Living on the Edge" ~ Save the Cat/Blake Snyder, September 30, 2011

"Cooking Lessons" ~ Magical Musings, September 30, 2011

"Questioning Our Relevance: Fear, Change & the Digital Revolution" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, August 14, 2011

"The Writer's Menu" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, June 20, 2011

"One Writer's Journey: A Tale of Many Beginnings" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, April 26, 2011

"A Little Matter of Verb Tense" ~ Magical Musings, March 18, 2011

"Don't Forget the Lyrics" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, March 6, 2011

"Don't Wait for Heroes" ~ RWA-Women's Fiction Chapter, February 21, 2011

"Learning to Follow a Passion" ~ Girlfriends Book Club, January 11, 2011

"On Competition and Writers" ~ Brant Flakes, December 30, 2010

"The BS2 x 4: Beating Out a Novel in Quadruplicate" ~ Save the Cat/Blake Snyder, October 29, 2010

"Somebody to Lean On" ~ Magical Musings, October 29, 2010

"In Honor of Blake Snyder: Master of the Beat Sheet" ~ The Seekers, September 7, 2010

"For the Love of Voice" ~ Brant Flakes, June 11, 2010

"On Criticism and Writers" ~ Brant Flakes, December 31, 2009

"Flipped: From Reviewer to Reviewee" ~ Romantic Times Book Reviews, October 2009

"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time."
~Maya Angelou