This Writer’s Life

Think Outside, No Box Required

I did a bad thing. This past Saturday was the monthly meeting for one of my local chapters. I was running a bit late thanks to Los Angeles area traffic, and when I arrived ten minutes after the meeting start time, I did something I had never done before: I sat in my car for five minutes just staring out the…

Sudha Balagopal

Welcome to another Sunday Speed Date! This week I have Sudha Balagopal joining me. Sudha Balagopal's fiction straddles continents, melding cultures and blending thoughts, representing ideas and desires from the east and the west. Her work delves into the everyday lives of ordinary people to reveal larger, universal truths. She is the author of a novel, A New Dawn, and…

The Earl

What I am reading this week For today's TBR Thursday I have The Earl by Katharine Ashe. I actually pre-ordered this book before it came out and couldn't put it down upon it's release. I finished it in one day. It seems one of my last Wednesday Reads post was a Katharine Ashe book as well. What can I say, this author is on…

But it's a tree...

Having researched Georgian and Regency England for going on three years now, I sometimes forget that what are commonplace language references for me are not familiar words and phrases for those not as entrenched in the period as I. During one of my Sunday Snippets, I had my Hero get out of bed on a cold winter's morning, don his banyan…

Jex Lane

This week on Sunday Speed Dates I have Jex Lane joining me.  Geek. Gamer. Ambivert. Bookworm. Author. I enjoy writing about hidden worlds full of vampire hunters, epic battles, steamy sex, and, of course, beautiful monsters. Join me on facebook and say hi! I don’t bite…I let my vampires do that for me. Thanks for joining me! I’m just going…