This topic comes up in just about every interview I’ve been in (whether as the interviewer or the interviewee)… DO YOU UTILIZE REAL PEOPLE, REAL PLACES, REAL EVENTS IN YOUR WORKS OF FICTION? Truth is there is always a figment or two (or three or four) of reality in fiction. Whether it be a location…
Tag: fiction
Writer’s Motto
My apologies for not posting a lot over the summer. Here it is the last day of August and I realized I had not posted a thing on my own webpage. Now I could list a lot of excuses, but they would be just that…excuses. In the words of a good friend of mine, stop…
July Author Spotlight — M.J. Kaestli
The fireworks are over, unless you live in my neighborhood which seems to think two weeks before and two weeks after the 4th of July is primetime for fireworks until all hours of the night. So why should we stop the fireworks? And this time, I don’t mean the ones that go BOOM and frighten…
Lessons Learned and Big Announcement
First, let’s get the BIG announcement out of the way because quite frankly I’m too tickled pink to put this off. DRUM ROLL PLEASE… After some fantastic reviews from The Naked Reviewers last week, they chose my paranormal fantasy romance book, Rekindled Prophecy – Book 1 of the Greylyn the Guardian Angel series, as their…
1st Ever Book Signing!
I am beyond excited to be attending my first EVER book signing event this coming weekend (2/29/2020) in one of my favorite cities on planet Earth – Charleston, SC. Since this my first book signing, and Penned Charleston is such a HUGE event, I will admit to being a bit intimidated and nervous. What if…