In a recent author talk, one of the audience members asked me why Two Hawks spoke English with a Scottish accent. I explained that my
There’s more to book publishing than simply writing a book. The next step is book marketing.
Happy Syttende Mai! For those of you unfamiliar, Syttende Mai, the Seventeenth of May, is Norwegian Constitution Day. It’s the day in 1814 that the
If you live in South Dakota, northwestern Iowa or western Minnesota, you live in KELOLand. “KELOLand” was the invention of KELO-TV’s founder, Joe L. Floyd.
No one was more surprised than I was when my character took control of the scene in the book I’m currently writing. There I was,
I’ve described Proving Her Claim as “historically accurate.” The novel itself is historical fiction, but I relied heavily on non-fiction research in the process. A statistic sparked
Typos happen. Whether they’re grammatical errors, missing or misspelled words, typos are the bane of every writer’s existence. That’s not an over-statement. Part of the path
Even though Amazon sells 80 percent of all books sold in the US today, there’s something cozy about bookstores that Amazon can’t match. When you walk into
The pasque flower plays a prominent role in “Proving Her Claim.” I chose it for its color and because it is one of the first
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