I am putting the finishing touches on the first draft of my 22nd novel right now. Woohoo! And I’m trying to get my older daughter ready to move away to college and the younger daughter ready to start high school. And I have to get myself ready to teach my fall classes. Plus I seem …
Today J.S Fields joins us! Shopping—love it or leave it? I would rather lose a foot than go on an extended shopping trip. I have about a half an hour patience window, tops. Unless there is food. If you bring snacks and they are delicious, I will follow you around like a puppy for hours. You’ve …
Today Jaylee James spins the wheel! If you were forced at gunpoint to sing Karaoke, what song would you choose? It would not take being held at gunpoint to get me to sing Karaoke… 😉 But I would sing something by Marina & the Diamonds, my favorite musician. Say you met your all-time favorite celebrity, …
This week Soren Summers is playing with us! Write a story—no more than 100 words–based on this prompt: When the levee failed…. When the levee failed to give Eirich the satisfaction of murdering the Glass Empress, it made the toymaker furious. Nobody told him that the brittle young monarch conducted royal levees from behind the …
Today G.R. Lyons joins us! You get to spend a day with a character from any book—but not one of your own. Who do you choose? Locke Lamora from The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. I apparently have a thing for con artists (no wonder White Collar is my favorite TV show and …
Amy Aislin spins the wheel today! Describe a hobby one of your characters likes to engage in. Sam, one of the MC’s from my upcoming release, As Big as the Sky (available August 4), gardens as a hobby. It’s something he learned from his father and it’s a way for him to get out of …
Today’s player is F.E. Feeley, Jr.! What is your superpower? My superpower is being Don Quixote. Write a haiku poem about your favorite beverage. Nope. No Haiku. But I will give you a poem I wrote when I was drunk on Johnny Walker: Memory chase memory through the wildflowers down by the stream and across …
Today’s player is J. Scott Coatsworth! If you could be granted instant virtuosity on a musical instrument you don’t now play, which one would it be, and why? OK, so I used to play the flute (only because it was the smallest instrument that would get me into band. OK, yeah, I was a total …
Please welcome Anne Barwell! You’re on a ship with Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Catherine the Great, David Bowie, Billie Holiday, and Gengis Khan. But oh no! The ship is sinking and the lifeboat only holds four people. You get to decide—who gets on that lifeboat? You’re starting with the difficult questions. My first thought is that …
Happy Fourth! Today we’re joined by L.J. LaBarthe. What is your worst habit? Your best one? Procrastination. I think I’m a master at it. If I can put off something I don’t want to do, I’ll find a reason to make that happen. As for best… hm. I’ve been told I’m too generous sometimes, so …