Homestretch: or, “I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie”

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Yes, I’m in the home stretch.  The entire first book of the series is written and in polishing mode right now.  I do wish I could write simple little Fifty Shades of Something kind of…

Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing

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I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d…

Vision Boards for Artists, Writers, and Managers: Seeing It Is Believing It

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I was making vision boards back in Medieval Times (aka, my college days).  I had a fridge door covered in  GQ cut-outs of hot punk men with thunderbolt earrings and turned-up collars and several poster…