A short interview wherein some of my favorite authors answers three questions about the writing life. Question: What’s your Go-To source when you need inspiration? Our go-to source for inspiration is always folklore and especially fairy tales. Fairy tales are good bones for a story, what you use to build structure, and you can do…
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Kory Wells ~ 3 Questions & a Poem
3 Questions and a Poem–in which one of my favorite poets is interviewed and shares a poem. Question 1 As a poet, how important is it to read other poets? Reading other poets has been fundamental to my development as a writer, and to my growth as a person, because reading other poets has made…
b.read.crumbs : Thinking outside Schrodinger’s Box
writers on the writing life Coming to you a week early, because I know most of you will be too holiday-crazed to read next week. I am both published and not published. Two pieces of writing were accepted by journals a while back. I’d love to have my work appear in either of them, so…
The Thieves’ Carousel by Briana Chen
Book info and a giveaway you can enter! What price would you pay to undo a death? In the shadowed streets of Aspizia, two thieves—Lyo Morandi and Jasper Bray—risk everything to rewrite the past. Haunted by the death of their friend Milo, they set their sights on a forbidden prize: a ring reputed to alter…
b.read.crumbs: Onward into the next series
Category: b.read.crumbs writers on the writing life In case you missed it, here’s Julie Herman’s latest b.read.crumbs post: Deb and I have done four chapters of b.read.crumbs thus far. One year with guests, one year with tarot, one year with terribly written Fairy Tales, and one year with prompts. We are very loose when it…
There’s a witch in the works
Small Town Witch gets her own book I wrote a few micro-stories about Small Town Witch, and then I wrote a few more. Now there’s a chapbook called Small Town Witch. The publication date is January 1, 2026, but some online bookstores may allow pre-orders. Yes, it’s available from Ingram, so your favorite independent bookseller…
b.read.crumbs : Do we really need more of these?
writers on the writing life Julie and I have been offering up our monthly b.read.crumbs wisdom for four years now. We’ve written from random prompts, prompts generated by a deck of writing cards, tarot cards, fairy tales, and at one point we grabbed random words from the air and wrote about them. During these years,…
Things I learned while writing Deception (A Hollywood Mystery)
a guest post by Britt Lind I think one of the most important things you can do when writing a book is to know your characters on a deep and profound level. Because I was an actress for so many years this came naturally to me when I began writing Deception as it has for…
b.read.crumbs: Make it short
Truly, it adds clarity. In case you missed Julie Herman’s most recent b.read.crumbs post, I’m sharing it here. It’s important. Deb sent me a prompt, which I may or may not share later, mostly because her prompt brought a long answer. The word of my moment right now is “short, as in, “I’ll get to that…
Things I Learned While Writing Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice by Stephen D. Owen
Iceni: the Year of Sacrifice has been a journey of emotion and imagination, one that I continue in Iceni Rising & Boudica’s Fate, completing the story of Boudica and the Iceni Revolt against Rome. I have come to learn that the human condition endures, from our own times back through the centuries. Self-sacrifice, making the…