Writing a Series

Why I Don’t Run For A plane

Back in the late 73s, I was stuck in traffic on my way to Los Angeles International Airport to catch a PSA jet to San Diego to attend a trade show. Even then, "rush" hour traffic ran generally twenty-four hours a day. I finally pulled into a parking lot, grabbed my...

Getting Inside Your Character’s Heads

Any of you who have read my work know I love writing in the first person singular. Why? Because I can get deeply inside a character and gaze out through her eyes. I can say "her," because so far all of my first-person works have had female main characters. I really...

How I Found Mad Max

Perhaps the title should be "How Mad Max Found Me." I'm often asked by book clubs how I come up with my ideas. That's both an easy and difficult question, because inspiration can come from a shopping list dropped at Kroger's or a single child's clean sock lost in a...