Delighted to welcome Judy Penz Sheluk as my guest this month. The characters in her books are always so realistic and fun that I was thrilled she picked them to talk about. Enjoy! – Debra Creating (and Eliminating) Secondary Characters by Judy Penz Sheluk Several years back I had the pleasure of attending an event […]
It had to happen to this TV addict. It had to happen to this award show addict. What has happened? Well for the award shows, they rarely nominated a show that I watched, so it was useless to watch the Emmys or the Daytime Emmy since I don’t watch the few soap operas still on […]
Several years ago, i was invited to participate in a book festival sponsored by a local, glossy magazine named after O’Henry. The festival was being held at a high-dollar, swanky hotel, also named after the famous writer. I was still riding pretty high with my win for Best First Private Eye Novel given by St. […]
I’m delighted to welcome author Terry Ambrose as my guest to discuss his new series in the blog “Thrilling and Unpredictable” – Where a Writer Got His Ideas. I’ll be back next month – Debra Readers often ask writers where their ideas come from. In my case, the ideas are usually driven by a confluence […]
Clicking Our Heels – Fall is Here!!! Fall is here! It should be no surprise that each member of the Gang has a different thought about Fall. Debra H. Goldstein – Although I hate to see the leaves drop, Fall means I don’t have to worry about keeping my white pants clean. Shari Randall/Meri Allen […]
Passing Day(s) by Debra H. Goldstein What a day this has been! Where did time go? These two sentences seem to sum up the way I’ve been feeling lately. I’m not sure why, but it seems like the days are getting shorter and my to-do list, while not much longer than at other times, seems […]
Clicking Our Heels – The Gang is Reading! Authors are writers, but they also are readers. As diversified as the Gang is, we recently decided to see what genre or genres we read in, what some of our favorite authors are, and what we are reading. Saralyn Richard – I enjoy books from all genres, […]
Hacked and I am so Hacked! by Debra H. Goldstein I woke up recently to a flood of e-mails from friends telling me that my Instagram account had been hacked during the night. Great! I’d wanted to sleep late and now I had to handle the aftermath of being hacked. It was such a little […]
Clicking Our Heels – A Day at the Movies The past few weeks have been so hot that people have been looking for air-conditioned places to hang out – like movie theaters. In our personal lives, we each have favorite movies and television shows with varied reasons we like them. As authors, we think about […]
New Website and New Book – Five Belles Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein Wow! It doesn’t seem possible. After months of planning and Bethany’s expert manipulations behind the scenes, The Stiletto Gang has a new website home. I’m thrilled. Not only was Blogger (this one is Word Press based) becoming, at times, difficult to […]