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How blogging has inadvertently taken me towards a more positive approach of acceptance, with a focus on what’s good.

Plaudits for Vacancy from Literary Titan: A 5-Star Review. A struggling single mother and a suspicious widow both have a habit of hiding from hard truths, until a brutal tragedy in an unforgiving Texas town forces them to face what they’re hiding, and fill the vacancy in their own hearts. New fiction in The Dust Series. Based on a true story.

There’s a saying in real estate, that it’s all about location. Location. Location. Location. It’s just as true in writing historical novels.

To ignore a creative funk is to imperil your creative stamina. Here's how to take a time out to tend to your creative soul.

Like superheroes with super powers, we creatives must use our gift with care — nourish it, tend to it, and practice it.

Distractions are what I'm facing hourly, as I prepare to launch my first published novel. So I wrote this advice to self to distract me from distractions.

How I wrote a historically accurate, wickedly fictional novel by gathering a dozen years of Texas research—on wheels, by click, and by page

I'm playing favorites with books while I count down the days to the Unspoken Book Club Launch July3. Catch three+ of my favorites.

Diving deep into the creative evolution of a seasoned art director turned full-time author on the Hill Country Authors Podcast.

Today in Texas Writers Month, we turn to the women. When you're reading Texas authors who write about Texas, and watching films set in Texas, having a woman's point of view is in itself a whole new genre. Here are nine Texas women writers to get to know.

With so many Texas authors to applaud and read in May during Texas Writers Month, are you wondering where to start?

Even the dystopian novels I'm reading these days aren't predicting that. Instead, they're showing us our history, and a way forward.

These authors found inspiration in the hidden histories of accomplished women, whose achievements went untold.

How does art connect us? Because humans are hard-wired to make connections, art connects us to one another, and to the whole wide world.

For Women's History Month, we're reading the stories of women once marginalized or totally overlooked in historical fiction

There's a Magic to Celebrating Milestones...and It Begins With Champagne (and Books About It)

Just like everyone else, we face choices. But the choices authors face aren't exactly like the ones you're imagining.

Some New Year's Resolutions are so grand they're bound to fail. Before you join the Quitter's Day majority (January 10), try this smoother means to success.

When Mark Twain advised to write tight, he surely hadn't been enchanted by the Buzz Words of 2014. Read on for my Fable of Our Times.

How does inspiration strike? For these authors, it's the random events in everyday life that sparked ideas for their novels.