Greetings, Dragon Fans! I have a great book — with real magic spells — to recommend. You’ll love this book if you . . . Believe that Dragons could exist on some other plane of existence Have ancient memories about Dragons on Earth Want to connect with your Guardian Dragon Would like to practice the […]
I’ve been researching all kinds of weird folklore to write Seduced by an Angel, the third novel in my Velvet Lies series of Western Historical Romances — which all have Paranormal elements. Since I’m setting the book in Texas, circa 1884, I first started looking for unexplained “natural” phenomena to help me develop my story […]
How can we sense danger before it occurs? How do we attract total strangers who appear, out of the blue, when we need help? Mystics say we’re all connected. Quantum physicists agree. I started working with Intuition as a lark: a bunch of us Romance writers piled into a hotel room during a regional writers conference. We were giddy […]
Welcome Wizards in Training! As every diligent apprentice (and fantasy fiction writer) knows, one must study gobs of arcane material in order to turn annoying kid brothers into toads, or broccoli into chocolate ice cream – or unpublished manuscripts into bestselling fantasy novels. So today, I’m recommending five fab books for your magical research! (By […]
Even before I had ever heard of the term, “the Universal Law of Attraction,” it was helping me move toward my dream of becoming a bestselling author. I’ll never forget a conversation that I once had with Arnette Lamb, a New York Times bestselling Romance novelist. I was whining about my rejection letters from Romance […]
When I first announced to my friends and family that I was determined to become self-employed, living the writing life, I was approximately 13 years old. I’ll never forget my father’s reaction to my dream of becoming a published novelist. A nuclear physicist with a PhD, my father has always based his decisions upon what he describes […]
No matter how hard I try, I have NEVER been able to make out the face of a “man” on the moon. Nor have I ever seen a woman nursing a child or bending over a cooking pot with “a little dog nearby,” as Rosemary Ellen Guiley describes it in her book, Moonscapes: A Celebration […]
Positive thinking and the Law of Attraction are inextricably linked to my writing life. Positive thinking was not an ingrained behavior that resulted from my upbringing, however. I was 35 years old before I finally recognized and accepted that there is real power in positive thinking. I had to learn about the New Thought Movement the hard way, though: […]
Most people have seen a rainbow after a storm. But have you ever see a moonbow? They’re one of Mother Nature’s most glorious examples of “night magic.” A moonbow is the prismatic, colored haze that sometimes shows up around the moon. Moonbows are extremely rare (and hard to see around city lights.) The right amount […]
Ever since the third grade, I wanted to become a published novelist. By the time I reached the age of 30, my passion for writing novels had grown so strong, that I was willing to ignore an IRS report that said the average writer earns 7 cents per hour. Then I met a woman who […]