A Peek Inside Her Lost Diary INTRODUCTION: There is something about ink on paper that a screen can never replicate. A typed message is clean, controlled, anonymous and... passive. But a handwritten page? It bleeds. It trembles. It crosses things out, writes in the margins, draws arrows, and scribbles pictures beside the text. Studies have been done with wired-up writers to compare their brains while using keyboards and screens vs. the same writers using pen and paper. Recent

After all the writing and editing, after the Beta readings, the rewrites, the trimmings and more trimmings, we finally arrive at the cover design. I find this part of the book process to be interesting, even exciting. In my mind's eye I have an image of the cover that will wrap around the content I've agonized over for three years, but that image is more emotional than visual. It's more related to the reaction that I hope people will take away with them upon viewing the cover

My newest novel, "Lost Diary," was loved by my beta readers and so I sent it off to my wonderful editor in San Diego for an assessment...

My new book, LOST DIARY, is in the hands of beta readers! It's been well over a two year journey but it's done! A new genre for me:...

In April, STILL BREATHING was featured for a review on an excellent book blog site owned by Jenny Share. She not only let me answer her...