Let’s Wish Robert Burns a Happy Birthday!
Let’s raise a glass today to toast Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Poet and the author of Auld Lang Syne.
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Public Domain Day: It’s That Time of Year
On Public Domain Day, January 1, 2024, creative works from 1928, including notable books like “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” films such as “Steamboat Willie,” and various musical pieces and sound recordings from 1923 became free for public use.
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NaNoWriMo Prep in a Day
It’s the first day of NaNoWriMo! While I’m already behind, I have a plan to catch up and write 50,000 words in a month while also staying sane and happy.
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Longfellow’s Haunted Houses
It’s almost Halloween so it’s time for a spooky poem. And one of my favorites is Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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That Which We Call a Rose…
Naming fictional characters isn’t as easy as it might seem. Authors invest a lot of time and worry into choosing the perfect fictional character names, and this blog post explains why.
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A Christmas for Virginia
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. A reprint of the famous 1897 Sun Newspaper editorial.
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Happy Thanksgiving
I just want to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! I hope this day, and the rest of your year, is filled with love, laughter, and more blessings than you can count. To help you celebrate, I’ve added one of my favorite Thanksgiving poems to this post.
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Gratitude Journaling
Since Thanksgiving is tomorrow, I thought I’d share one of my favorite practices for this time of year. There are many types of journals–diaries, travel journals, food journals, etc, but there’s another kind of journal that does more than keep track of your life. There’s a journaling practice that’s been proven to reduce stress and improve happiness. It’s known as Gratitude Journaling.
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Happy Halloween & A Tell-Tale Heart!
Happy Halloween! To celebrate, I thought I’d write about Edgar Allan Poe who published his most famous short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, in 1843. This story
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A Romance Writer’s Favorite Books for Halloween
As an author who loves to read and write happily ever afters, I have to admit I also read in many different genres, including horror. And this time of year, I tend to reread a lot of my favorite “scary and spooky” books that I’d normally not read at any other time of year.
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NaNoWriMo Preptober: Part 1
It’s Preptober time! That means it’s time to prepare for NaNoWriMo–that month where writers try to write 50K words on their manuscript or finish a project they’ve already started.
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Elizabeth Marie Pope’s The Sherwood Ring
A brief introduction to the acclaimed YA author Elizabeth Marie Pope and her first ghostly novel The Sherwood Ring. A perfect romantic thriller to read on a cold autumn night.
