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Recently, a fan of mine remarked, “Where’s the kick-butt female character?”  He was talking about Operation Shadow Box, where the lead character is a guy.  Then, when a writer friend of min

Some of you may wonder why I’ve been silent for a bit on the blogs.  The past month has been hard.  As I previously wrote, we lost our female basenji of fifteen years, Aspen, on March 18.  Sin

Blogger’s note:  I know three weeks is a long time to be away from the blog, but it was for good reason as we cared for Aspen in her final days. We knew it was time. As Steve and I sat on th

Before I began writing, I always enjoyed reading. “Read what you like to write.”  That’s one of the mantras that got drilled into my head early in my writing career.  When I arrived at my w

As writers, we’ve all done it. We’ve looked at a manuscript so long that we miss things.  Simple stuff.  Stuff that if we’d taken the time, we might have found.  At work, we had a classic