Category: #MFRWauthor 52-Week Blog Challenge 2018

This week’s writing prompt is, Top five things on my bucket list. I don’t really have a “bucket list,” partly because I don’t want to consider my own mortality, and partly because I’m sure that I’ll eventually get to do every amazing thing I wish. For me, goals and bucket lists are rather the same thing. Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, “Five authors (alive or dead) I’d like to meet.” I’m going to go with some of the Greatest Of All Timers here: Stephen King Anne Rice J. R. R. Tolkien (He would bring C. S. Lewis as his date, so that’s a bonus) Jane Austen Pearl S. Buck Those are Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, “A book that has influenced my life.” I have always been a voracious reader. I remember my dad reading me The Hobbit before bed, along with the staples of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. When I started picking up books, I had the complete Litte House books, dozens of Baby-Sitters Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, “What I would do if I couldn’t be a writer?” And the answer to this is super-easy. I’d be digging up dinos! My favorite movie of all time is the first Jurassic Park. But unlike a lot of adults my age, I didn’t want to become a paleontologist because of Read More

Since I write historical fiction and about women from all walks of life, my instinct is to say that there is not too much of me in my writing, but I know that isn’t true. A lot of my writing is influenced by my thoughts, feelings, and beliefs even if I am writing about vampire Read More

My earliest memory was from when I was very young, only two or three years old. I was lying in bed. I didn’t want to go to sleep, and I had snuck out of bed several times and my mom had come back in the room and put me back in my bed and firmly Read More

I’ve written many things over the years, but my favorite is probably a short story called “My Parents Buried Me In A Red Dress.” You can read an excerpt of it here, but the full short story isn’t available anywhere right now. I need to find a place for it soon. I really like the Read More