(vector by happymay, from Depositphotos, uploaded in 2014) So why is it that it took until I was sixty-six years old to regularly start making my bed without being prompted? Until recently, I had the attitude toward housework as … Continue reading...

I learn something new from every book I write, even after twenty-five odd books out there. Sometimes what I learn is a writing craft detail. Other times it’s a production or promotion detail. I’ve learned a lot from the last … Continue reading →

For some reason, I end up buying horses in August. Maybe it’s because prices are usually better since people want to get horses off of their books before winter, but probably it’s just because that’s when the timing is right … Continue reading →

It’s a book birthday! The Cost of Power: Return is out today, both in ebook and in paperback through Ingram Spark. I haven’t set up the paperback link in Bookshop yet, because my experience has shown that I need to … Continue reading →

  Sometimes you just can’t keep a good character down. Mike Martiniere sandbagged me when I wrote the first Martiniere Legacy books, appearing as the five-year-old clone of Philip Martiniere in Realization. He kept nagging at me until I wrote … Conti...

One of the drawbacks of how my brain functions is that complex organizational schemes only last for a short period of time, generally. Some things remain relatively intact—my use of the 8 ½” x 11” Moleskine weekly planner, for one, … Continue reading...

  There’s been a lot of quiet progress on the equine front. Mocha and Marker moved to summer pasture in May. Mocha immediately began establishing her rule not just over Marker but the neighboring gelding, Blue. In past years, when … Continue reading...

Over the past few days I’ve been working my way through nearly a thousand pages of manuscript to whip The Cost of Power into some sort of continuity shape. After running all three books through a line edit, my next … Continue reading →

It’s amazing how inspired I can get from reorganizing my office. Starting the process always begins with me reaching a point of frustration, because whatever structure I have been using suddenly just doesn’t work. Brain fog tiptoes in and I … Continu...

Image–roses at Arlington, Oregon, taken by Joyce Reynolds-Ward Well, I’m back. I didn’t expect to be away from writing a blog post for so long, but I’ve had my head down writing madly so I could finish The Cost of … Continue reading →