Research has shown that two of the things that lead to obesity and eventually a whole barrage of health problems are a sedentary lifestyle a...

I'll just go ahead and confess: I put people I know in my stories. Some of those people are based on me or a fantasy version of me, such...

I don’t know what book I was reading when Ann and I decided to do a short sale on our house, but I know I started Jeri Westerson’s Blood La...

Over the weekend, I wrote up a rather lengthy response to a question about National Novel Writing Month , the annual event taking place each...

I wrote my first mystery, Fools Rush In, in nine months. To celebrate finishing the book I bought a modestly priced bottle of champagne to ...

As a writer honing the art of short-story writing, I was very pleased to hear that Alice Munro was selected as the winner of the 2013 Nobel ...

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of knocking out that first draft.  The storyline is tight, the characters fresh, and the ...