The young girl was alone on the country road. She could see the farming landscape stretch serenely for half a mile in all directions. She noticed the grain fields on either side of the road. A golden hue was replacing the verdant landscape. Wild Alberta roses were still blooming alongside raspberry canes. Dust billowed over [CONTINUE READING]
May 092012
When I think back to the inspiration for my book, WAKING UP HAPPY: A HANDBOOK OF CHANGE WITH MEMOIRS OF RECOVERY AND HOPE, I think of a night three years ago. Our granddaughter Shyloh had ended up in the hospital after nearly dying of a heroin overdose. She was going into a rehab center the [CONTINUE READING]
May 012012
A frequent visitor to our Louisiana backyard bird feeders is a persistent squirrel, who I watch with a blend of awe and aggravation. He spends an amazing amount of effort to get to one particular feeder, stretching, hanging upside down, falling off and getting back on. While I admire his tenacity, he isn’t very smart: [CONTINUE READING]
Apr 172012
Just as there’s no one right way to write a book, there are also no true rules for writing. Ask a group of writers how they start a book and work through to the end of it, and all of us will tell you something different. But for what it’s worth, here are my own [CONTINUE READING]
I have a very vivid dream life. I have since I was a child. From the ages of five until I was twenty-five, I dreamed several times a week that someone was trying to kill me. I spent many nights in my dreams running, running, running from some unknown assailant. Fortunately those nightmares have taken [CONTINUE READING]
Today we have Stacy Verdick Case, author of A Grand Murder, which is the first book in her Catherine O’Brien mystery series. (Our review will be posted next Thursday and we’re giving away a copy!) When she asked me if there was anything in particular I’d like her to write about, I suggested that she [CONTINUE READING]
(Click the tour banner to follow the book tour.) Interview subject: Jameson Clares Jolene Perry: Tell me a little about you… Jameson Clares: Uh, okay. I’m a senior in high school. Lived in Las Vegas my whole life. Both my parents work at the Paris Hotel on the strip. We live in a nice house [CONTINUE READING]
When I started writing Conscious Calm, one of the things I wanted to do was play with language a little. What were newer, fresher ways I might describe what we do internally without even noticing, those activities that often create even more stress in our busy lives? One of the phrases I ended up using [CONTINUE READING]
Mar 262012
I interview my characters in my head all the time in order to flesh out their motivation for making the choices they do. It was great fun to do it out loud, so to speak! Today I’m interviewing Brodie Thorne, hero of my HQN release WOODROSE MOUNTAIN. Brodie, tell us a little about yourself. (Shifting [CONTINUE READING]
Mar 162012
The ideas of sweetly, child-like faeries are largely a product of the Victorian age. In ancient lore, faeries were a mischievous, and sometimes downright murderous, lot. And Cornish pixies (or piskeys) could be be the most magical and evil of all. According to Pixie Folklore and Legends by Enys Tregarthen, God once called on Adam [CONTINUE READING]
Forgiveness is a central theme in BEYOND JUSTICE. Today Josh talks about its transforming power. When I was a child back in the Mesozoic Era, whenever a kid would tell us to stop doing something the common retort was always “It’s a free country”—in other words, I can do whatever I like. Indeed, relatively speaking, [CONTINUE READING]
(We’re sitting at a strategically placed table on the front patio of a well-known crowded Beverly Hills restaurant) K.T.: Why do we have to be so conspicuous? You know I don’t do scenes. NDV: Puh-leaze. Get over yourself. If it’s any comfort, no one is interested in you if they can’t place you in the [CONTINUE READING]
Mar 072012
As a start-up entrepreneur in the medical device industry since the mid-80s, I’ve been privileged to have the opportunity to see the newest innovations in healthcare and work with some of the most brilliant researchers, scientists and physicians in the industry throughout the world. It’s allowed me to witness technologies that could easily be viewed [CONTINUE READING]
