I may or may not have seen the ghost of Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London. This was back when I was in high school, and one of the places we stopped on the UK tour was the Tower of London. Totally touristy, I …
Read MorePossible New Scam-Beware!
I thought I should loop my readers in on a possible new scam variant that might be on the horizon (because we writers don’t have to deal with enough of these, apparently). Here’s what went down today. Make of it what you will. I got …
Read MoreScammers-The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Authors tend to be inundated with scammers. My biggest ones at the moment are fake book club emails and book marketers. All fake, most coming from Nigeria according to their IP addresses. Most of them are obviously AI written, though that illusion falls away the …
Read MoreNew Version Of Scam Targeting Authors
Fellow authors/writers out there, just a little heads-up. There’s a new scam going around targeting authors. I’ve gotten about a dozen of these, and they all follow roughly the same format. You will get an email from someone saying they represent some book club or …
Read MoreOrishas, Crossroads and Radio Weirdness
I posted about this on my author Facebook page a few months ago, but I figured I’d do an expanded version here. Back in early August, I was heading back from my favorite writing haunt, the local Panera. Why Panera? It’s generally quiet, nobody bothers …
Read MoreNot Today, Creepy House With Shag Carpet In The Bathroom
Back in college, my folks decided that I couldn’t stay in the dorms anymore. There were a multitude of reasons, not least of which was when the guy next door to use tried to get into our room with a credit card and then peed …
Read MoreSpooky Gettysburg Battlefield Story-Reynolds Monument
It’s dang near midnight (and will be past that by the time I finish this). Time for a spooky story! My dad and I are history nerds. Battlefields are the go-to vacation for us, especially American Civil War. I know…weird for a lady. One vacation …
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