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Sometimes I wonder if I’ve started repeating blog post titles. Then I remember I’m coming up on the 11-year anniversary (!!!) of this site and I’ve decided not to let it bother me. Okay, so! As of my last post about a month ago, I’d finished writing a book that had taken me on quite […]

IT IS DONE. Conquering the Skies, the fifth and final book of the Searching the Skies/Geneva Greyson series is finally finished. I have bundled it up and sent it off; receipt has been confirmed, and now I’m waiting for details on a release schedule. While it’s been a fun ride, I won’t lie and claim […]

I’m pleased to say I’ve reached the home stretch of Surrendering the Skies. I have one more chapter to go, plus an epilogue. And honestly, I’m not crazy about where my word count is right now, so I might wind up going back and adding in a few more things, but we’ll see where I […]

As we’re all aware of, the world is a crazy place right now. I waffle back and forth between “this will eventually blow over, most people will be fine” and…well, the opposite. Somewhere in all of this, I did, in fact, finish up Hunting Astrid earlier today. I actually have no idea how, since most […]

The tonsils are out, and while I’ve had my ups and downs this past week, it’s not the worst. Not particularly fun, but not the worst. So! Since I’m not completely miserable and I have passed off most of the care of my children to other adults, I’ve actually gotten quite a bit of writing […]

Which skills am I referring to with this title – my writing skills, my decision making skills, or a little bit of both? Probably both. Both is almost always an accurate answer. So I finally got back to Sonata for Springtime, which I started over a year ago, and then life got in the way. […]

I’ve finally arrived at the final chapter of my novella-in-progress (okay, there’s going to be a little epilogue, too), and as always, I’m sprinting toward the finish line. I don’t know what it is about endings that gets me to write faster. Maybe it’s because since I write in order, I’ve been thinking about the […]

Happy January! I hope your new year has gotten off to a great start! I was so determined to kick off the new year with good writing habits…eh. It’s been all right. I’ve gotten a chapter done in this first half of the first month, but it’s not like it’s the longest chapter ever. So […]

The end is in sight for the current short story (which does have a title now, and no, it’s not what I previously posted). I think I’ll definitely be able to get the first draft done by the end of the weekend. Then comes proofing/editing, and I’ll see which of my friends I can sweet […]

Happy New Year! Okay, I’m a couple weeks behind. I’ll be honest – while I do love the holiday season and it’s one of my favorite times of the year, part of me is really glad to be settling back into our usual routine. I was a creature of habit even before having kids, and […]

Happy New Year! I hope everybody had a fantastic holiday season, no matter what you celebrate, and may we all have a satisfying and productive 2016! Me, I got a niiiiiiice chunk of writing done on Out of Orbit while Mr. Landen and I were both off from work for over a week and I […]

It took some time, but I seem to have finally gotten some writing mojo back. I finished up the first draft for a short story I plan on submitting to an anthology, and I’m starting to get super excited about the projects I intend to work on next. Writing for anthologies is always an interesting […]