Life is Too Short to Be Miserable

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In high school, I floated between a few “cliques.”  I ran track, so was sort of a jock.  I took honors classes, so was sort of a braniac and proudly sat with my artsy friends at lunch.  I was definitely confident in my own skin and felt comfortable with who I hang with.  I don’t […]

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A Post Not Really About Valentine’s Day

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I never had Valentine’s Day until I was nineteen years old.  It’s not due to some glamorous notion my parents had that Valentine’s Day was a “Hallmark Holiday” and chose to buck establishment.  The reality was that I grew up in a religion – uhmmm cult — in which all holidays are pagan, therefore evil […]

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Not Quite Astronomy 101

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For my latest young adult novel, I needed to give my heroine a hobby with some backstory. I’ve always had an affinity of all things celestial, and thought it would be fun to research, so I gave her, drumroll please… astronomy.  My first in-depth glimpse at the stars was in elementary school when we took […]

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Author Interview: B. L. Bates

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I’m pleased to welcome author B. L. Bates to TL’s DreamWorld.  Growing up reading speculative fiction, B. L. Bates received a BS in electrical engineering and worked for several years in the computer industry. When a head injury left her totally blind, she turned to writing speculative fiction to stay sane. With her youngest child […]

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The Story of a Flaming Heart

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Writing has a lot to do with the flames of passion.  There’s the passion for the craft and path to publication.  Why else would one embark on an uphill journey with tons of boulders rolling down the mountain toward you?  Just when you out maneuver one, here comes another that tries to knock you down.  […]

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