image source I'm settling in to write novel #4 in the Menopausal Superheroes series . I've been on a hiatus from writing in that ser...

Image Source Many of my writer-friends and publisher-friends are struggling this year. Convention after convention has been cancelled, and t...

image source I've been working on a novel for about a year (a gothic romance, working title The Architect and the Heir ). It's going...

I'm so proud to announce that my debut novel,  Going Through the Change: A Menopausal Superhero Novel,  has received a Jaquis Awa...

This story was originally written as part of the Mocha Memoirs Season's Readings tour. I'm proud of this short story featuring ...

Finding the right ending for a novel is no small feat. I would argue it's the hardest part, at least for me. The ending needs to evolv...

April was an awesome month. I celebrated the release of my debut novel. I had a birthday. I got a few days off from the day job. It w...

So, I just had my birthday (yesterday).  It was pretty darn awesome. I spent it with my family. There was cake. There were hugs. There ...

When I started to write Going Through the Change , I hadn't thought my way in too deeply. I'm a discovery writer that way--I ju...

Women are tough. Even those of us without comic book superpowers have regular superpowers like multitasking, managing crises, organizin...

Before I began writing Going Through the Change , I had never really written action scenes. My first novel (unpublished, His Other Moth...

The women in Going Through the Change aren't used to thinking of themselves as unusual. In their own circles, each of them is prett...

You hear a lot about how slowly the traditional publishing world moves. It's been described as glacial. It's a source of frustr...

"A superhero novel? Really?" That's a pretty common response when I tell people what Going Through the Change is about...

Redheads run in my family on my mother's side. Many of us have at least some red to our hair, and one of my cousins inherited th...

Gender and societal roles is an integral part of Going Through the Change,  nowhere more obviously than in the marriage of Linda Alvar...