Happy Dancing – With Our Bellies Full and the Fire Dying by Debra H. Goldstein I’m happiest writing when I’m sitting in front of a toasty fire or positioned to stare at a body of water. Both are calming to me. The result is that the words tend to flow. Sometimes, though, a roaring fire […]
Clicking Our Heels – Crime We’ve Avoided Writing About Each member of the Stiletto Gang has dragged their heels in the dirt rather than write about certain types of crime, but if we did, we’d have to develop a special protagonist or antagonist. T.K. Thorne – Murder has been my go-to crime, although I have […]
Clicking Our Heels – What is the Dream Book You Always Wanted to Write? Authors dream of the day their work will be published and hopefully, read. There is nothing as exciting as holding that first published piece, but sometimes it isn’t the writer’s dream book. In fact, the second and later published works may […]
Calling All Black Utensils – Or Else! by Debra H. Goldstein Do you have any black plastic spatulas, spoons, or ladles lurking in your kitchen? New research shows that they may cause cancer, hormone and thyroid problems, neurobehavioral and development problems in children, and interference with reproductive and immune systems. The causation factor is the […]
Clicking Our Heels – Family Stress Points and the Holidays Although we could talk about the wonderful aspects of the holiday season, we thought it would be fun to discuss what families often sweep under the rug – whether there are stress points that may become a flashpoint during the holiday season. Mary Lee Ashford […]
My Mother’s Slippers by Debra H. Goldstein (This is a reprint that I like to run every November – but even after ten years, I still haven’t gone through all the slippers) At this time of year, I think about my mother. She was a driving force in my life until her unexpected death in 2014. […]
Clicking Our Heels – Wardrobes and Our Novels and Characters When one thinks of the elements that go into a book, one thinks about things like characters, setting, voice, but the Gang members recently had a discussion about how wardrobe plays a role in our books and how we dress our characters. We thought we’d […]
A New Beginning that Feels Like Groundhog Day by Debra H. Goldstein I’ve started a new work in progress. I’m only nineteen pages into it, but I’ve rewritten those same nineteen pages at least five times. My initial goal was to write 1000 words a day while I was at the beach. For the most […]
If Money Was No Object – Where Would We Live? Have you ever wondered what you would do if a fortune fell into your lap? Today, we share where in the world, if money was no object, each of us would live in the world? Barbara J. Eikmeier – I’m pretty happy living right where […]
Pens by Debra H. Goldstein There was a time that I wrote everything in longhand. Being left-handed, I had to be careful not to use a pen that allowed me to smear the ink with my pinky. In addition, because I have small hands (I can still wear a child’s sized glove or mitten), the […]