This week I’d like to introduce Sharelle Byars Moranville.  We met at an Author Fair at the Central Library in Des Moines recently.  We spoke briefly and because she is a local author, I wanted to give her the opportunity to introduce herself to my readers.  She writes for a variety of ages and I think she has an interesting story.  [...]

“I thought I saw you at the write-in last night but then I looked again and you were gone.  Are you a Ninja?” A fellow Nano writer sent me that post on facebook today.  No I wasn’t at the write-in last night.  I spent the evening going out to dinner with my husband.  It’s the [...]

 Growing up (isn’t that when most dreams start?), I was a huge reader. I dreamed of writing books like A Wrinkle in Time, but the adults I knew were businessmen—not even business women; the “ladies” were moms and teachers and nuns. Even a girl going to law school was a stretch. My husband, Mac, was the [...]

Nanowrimo has been enjoyable so far. I have been able to keep up word wise even though I skipped yesterday with no really good reason. I have attended two of the local write-ins and I’m planning to attend tonight’s. So far we met Sunday afternoon at a coffee shop called Smokey Row. Great location, coffee [...]

I stayed up Saturday night until 1:30 in the morning because I was so in the zone with outlining my story for Nano.  So far I have outlined the first 10 chapters.  I have decided what the murder is all about and I have two sub plots going.  My main murder involves a someone who [...]