Is it me, or do things hurt worse and cut much deeper as an adult than they did when we were children? I wonder if it has to do with our years of experience. The longer we’re alive, the more change messes with us, and we therefore feel losses so much more than if we […]
It’s All In The Details
If I can avoid doing research when writing a book, I will. But I can’t, so I try to make it as painless as possible. It isn’t. I’d hate to think of what would happen if I ever came up with an incredible plot that took place hundreds of years ago. Either I’d update the […]
Dr. Plagiarizer or: How I Learned To Stop Stealing Other People’s Work
I was in a Creative Writing class back in college and had the displeasure to sit next to someone I wasn’t overly fond of. He was a bit on the obnoxious side of the fence, and eager to make a name for himself. We ended up getting paired together for an in-class project and I […]
The Intimacy of Flame Retardant Clothing
I’ve been feeling the urge over the past year to instill some depth into my work and admit that I’m searching for a little more depth in life. Why the change? Probably because life is changing so drastically around me. Well, around us. It was easy as a child to not give a rip about […]
Snark Smackdown! Authors Gone Wild
Is it naïve to think that there are enough decent people in the world who aren’t intent on screwing over or creating drama for the rest of the population? It’s a struggle each and every day not to give in to the chaos and just say “the hell with it.” I’ve worked in the automotive […]
A Year Since I Resigned? WTH???
I found myself in a quandary today. You see, there’s this desk. It’s a huge, heavy desk from the 1940s and it’s sitting in my former father-in-law’s workroom. It needs to come out of there so Painter Guy can paint this weekend and then Carpet Person can perform his function. Sure, Painter Guy can paint, […]
Proof For My Hubby I May Have Written Something People Read
So I was in a bit of a panic last night when I realized at 8 p.m. that I hadn’t written something brilliant yet—or at least a blog post—for today. Ralph turned to me and asked “Well, what did you write last year that people liked?” It received a loud “huh?” from me, which then […]
A Grand, Exciting, Phenomenal and Borderline Orgasmic Writing Experiment!
The Following Blog Post Trailer Has Been Approved For All Audiences: (cue dramatic announcer’s voice) In a world full of deceit, empty spaces on the shelf where Twinkies used to be sold, juvenile sex jokes, and Publisher’s Weekly nauseating authors the world over with their naming of E.L. James as Person of the Year for […]
A Kristoffer Gair Mystery: Would You Like A Kumquat With Your Asian Erotica?
I had a rather intriguing conversation last week with someone who contacted me and asked if I wrote intimate scenes in my books. Provided I did, he wanted to know–since I’m in a relationship that could be described as multicultural–how I described those scenes and if they also happened to be multicultural. That’s quite a […]
I Do What I Do…Despite What Anybody Else Might Say!
You know those little cartoon things making their way around Facebook and other social media sites? They’re the ones with a couple of panels separated into What Someone Thinks I Do, What Someone Else Thinks I Do, What My Mother Thinks I Do, etc? Yeah, those. Some of them are really quite funny and it […]
