From greenhouses to economic back-turns, it’s all fodder for writers developing characters or plot points. In book...
S.F. Powell: Sans serif
A Look at Greenhouses
In my fiction series, there’s plenty reference to plants and flowers, to gardens and gardening. A couple of my...
Cooking on the Grill
Summertime is here. We fall and winter lovers must grin and bear it. It's time for preparing meals without heating the...
Bookshelves to Die For Pt. 1
In the interest of Mental Health Awareness Month, I took a break from blogging during the month of May, but I am Sans...
All’s Fair in Love for Books
The COVID pandemic impacted everything on all fronts, so, no surprise I’d been out of the in-person book fair groove a...
Beginning a Novel: Stuck Before Getting Started
“It was a dark and stormy night…” (a tried-and-true opening for sure, and just as oft-played) You’ve fleshed out the...
Get Over the Fear, Dear.
Writers write for the utter joy of it. But loving to write doesn’t equate being entirely comfortable with exposure as...
A Toe-Dipping Approach
You’ve seen this (I know you have), either in movies or in real life: a person approaches the edge of a body of water,...
Playing God
A hidden satisfaction comes with being a fiction author. We are creators of people, creators of worlds, and creators...
The Reappearing Act
I completed my first novel years ago, made a whisper of noise about it—and then disappeared. Was it fear? Sure. Was it...
