LOVE IN A PAWN SHOP started life in my head as “my pitbull, pawn shop story” and for years that’s how I described it to anyone who showed the least bit of interest in what I was working on. The early version had a pitbull with a brindle coat. After Beau (the one on my cover) passed away a few… Read more →
Last weekend the Pen Warriors met at the Red Door for our weekend quarterly retreat. Amazingly, this is our 44th Red Door retreat! Amazing that we’ve had the special treasure of two days of discussing all things every 3 months for over eleven years! After an evening meal of Laura’s amazing beef bourguignon we planned the weekend, caught up on our… Read more →
I have the attention span of a gnat (not that anyone actually knows dip about a gnat’s attention span, nor do they know if clams are happy, but I digress…) The thing is that when I start out trying to learn about something, in this case how to write better blurbs for my ebooks, I end up sucked in by… Read more →
In January I took an on line social media course. It was an intense two weeks. So intense, the instructor has now decided to spread the same course over a month because there’s just so much to absorb. Social media is a huge, constantly morphing beast. Complicating everything is the fact that a platform that works today may not even… Read more →
Recently, my dh suggested a quick getaway and given my writing schedule, we found that we had to leave PDQ or miss our chance. So, off we went on a road trip to Vegas. Yes, Las Vegas, Nevada…a drive through mountains, valleys, snow-filled passes and finally desert terrain. All of it beautiful! I developed a fondness for road trips when… Read more →
February 14th is only a few days away and we all know what that means. Sales at jewellery stores, florists, candy counters and lingerie boutiques will skyrocket, restaurants will be filled to overflowing with lovers gazing into each other’s eyes, and romantic cards will fly off the shelves as we celebrate the people we love and show them just how… Read more →
I don’t think there’s a writer—anywhere—who hasn’t been asked where they get their ideas. The five of us here on the Pen Warrior blog are not exceptions. The funny thing is, until recently, we’d never asked each other this question. So during our last writers’ retreat we did ask and came up with our own top eleven places we find… Read more →
I don’t remember Martin Luther King Jr. very well. I vaguely recall him speaking on TV and I clearly remember the collective sadness when he was assassinated, though some of that was undoubtedly influenced by the assassination of Robert Kennedy two months later. (In my child mind the spring of 1968 was all about public weeping). While the man wasn’t… Read more →
I am particularly pleased to announce that my short story, The Stone Heart will be released in print just in time for Valentine’s Day. The Stone Heart is included in Northern Heat, a wonderful collection of short stories of erotica, erotic romance and spicy romance written by Canadians and edited by the award-winning erotic romance author Opal Carew. Canadians are… Read more →
I always enjoy the early weeks of the New Year. The frenetic days of Christmas are behind us; the mad whirl of shopping, planning, wrapping and entertaining done for another year. The overindulgence at holiday brunches, cocktail parties and dessert buffets has given way to healthier eating and the enthusiasm with which we wrote out our list of resolutions hasn’t begun to… Read more →
