Whether you’re a writer AND reader or a reader only, #amwriting is a great site to visit. It’s jam-packed with posts about the writing process and the writing life, musings about this and that, and free flash fiction stories. Free! My favorite kind! The one…

If I haven’t recommended The Social Networking Academy yet, I have been seriously remiss. Jo Barnes shares fantastic free information. This week, she turned me on to Animoto, where you can make a 30-second slide show for FREE, and they supply the styling and the…

Today’s sample is from MY NEW BOOK, FORCE OF HABIT — MUCH REJOICING!!1! In this scene Bel Schuster, who has gone off-limits and gotten herself kidnapped by a criminal who thinks she’s a VIP he can trade for amnesty, has called her co-worker, Tetra Petrie.…