September 2015

Seamless weaving of romance, mythology and psychology: A Prayer Heeded

An independent novel review A Prayer Heeded is the follow-up to Samreen Ahsan’s multi-award winning A Silent Prayer, the book that brought Ahsan international acclaim. A Silent Prayer has won six international book awards, including Best Romance at the 214 Paris Book Festival. But A Prayer Heeded is not really a sequel, because the two […]

In my continuing quest to define the essence of writing style, I have asked a good author-friend, Gary Henry, for his thoughts. Gary’s novels American Goddesses and Rogue Goddesses cross a number of genres. They features superheroines and spies, a little sex, a hefty dash of romance and lots of action. Combining these genres takes — well, a lot […]

(Just the first draft) Over the weekend, I finished the sequel to Army of Worn Soles. Looking at the outline a week ago, I realized I had only one chapter left to write to complete the story arc. So that’s what I did: I mapped out and then wrote that last chapter. What a great […]

Flying bullets: How to do lists right

Someone must have said that using lists makes your writing better. I say that because I see a lot of lists online and in print. It’s true that lists can make your message easier to understand. They help readers grasp not only information, but relationships between facts. But this improvement is often diminished by writers […]