I’ve placed a shelf above my desk. For my genie to sit while I write. Perhaps the below video will put to rest the doubts you now have about my sanity… (Just NOW? Now you question my sanity?) The writer cackles maniacally…

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Kind of. As most of you have surmised writing a screenplay is a process. And as I wrote earlier part of Mike’s and my process is to pass the script back and forth until we have a solid draft. We have a solid draft. 91 pages of a solid draft. Continue Reading →

I have a manuscript. A nearly completed manuscript. I also have an editor who wants to read the manuscript. This is not a problem, this, as every writer knows is a blessing. A bountiful, wonderful, most hoped for blessing. So what am I kvetching about? I want to send the Continue Reading →

So dear readers, you may or may not remember the very LENGTHY film treatment my writing partner, forever after called MM male (or until he tells me I can use his name on my blog) and I wrote for our producers. Well now I am in the process of co-writing Continue Reading →

Another GCC’er with a new book and this time non-fiction. Jenny Gardiner’s latest book Winging It just came out. Here is the cover: Also, here is a little bit about Grayce Tell us about WINGING IT: A MEMOIR OF CARING FOR A VENGEFUL PARROT WHO’S DETERMINED TO KILL ME and Continue Reading →

I am thrilled to announce the inaugural workshop for the RWA-Women’s Fiction Chapter. Direct Your Book! Theatrical Techniques to a Blockbuster Novel by Leanna Renee Hieber. And although RWA-Women’s Fiction would love to have YOU as a member, you need not be a member to participate in this fabulous workshop! Continue Reading →

How is it Tuesday already and I haven’t posted since last Wednesday? I’m not sure. I could blame it on the kids. I could blame it on my dear friend Ally and her challenge to me that I write 2k a day for 25 days. I could blame it on Continue Reading →

There is nothing like a challenge to get me revved up. And this week I’ve got two challenges that actually work together. So a good friend of mine has challenged me to write 2,000 words a day for 25 days. I’m in. All in. Except for Sundays, even God took Continue Reading →