Nancy's Blog

Are there rules for writing?  No, not in the sense of strictures that you must follow or your piece will collapse like wet tissue (always, o...

Jack and I returned from Rome last night.  What to say about ten fabulous days?  We ate, we saw, it conquered us.  There was no writing, but...

Last night I saw THE HUNGER GAMES, the mega-hit based on Suzanne Collins's mega-hit YA novel. Fidelity was the keynote of the experienc...

My efforts to get my blacklist available, both in ebooks and in print, continue. In this I am aided by Phoenix Pick, an imprint of the exce...

Norwescon, which occupied Seattle over the weekend, began with dogs and ended with flooding. Jack and I brought our dog with us, since the D...

For the last several months, I have been writing short stories. It's much different than writing novels. Stories must be tighter, driv...

Well, okay, I don't really know why you were doing 80 in a 55 zone. But if you have or ever had had a cat, and if you changed its litte...