A couple weeks ago, I was in Baltimore. I had to do my final reviews of the audio version of Spark. Whenever I had a few minutes, I’d pull out my laptop, slap on my headphones and listen to a chapter. I had the book in my lap so that…
This picture of Luna brought her some internet fame when I used it in an interview I did with Carol Novello, author of Mutual Rescue Luna came into our life as a rescue back in 2010. She’d been at the SPCA for 13 months and was close to a year-and-a-half…
This is actually Ardith's win - it took me four! In 2021, Feral Daughter, aka ShaChri Patel, made her first appearance as the heroine of the Spark Chronicles novels. Today, as I’m working to finish up the series, I’m getting shown a little love by the New York Times –…
Murder your darlings. Screenshot It’s a phrase in publishing that’s often associated with a similar phrase: Torment your darlings. The first, allegedly, means that you can’t afford to fall too much in love with your own prose. It can be the best thing you’ve ever written, but if it’s not…