Do you know the Rule of Twenty? After staring at the computer screen as I write the next sentence of the fourth Djinn Chronicles novel, my eyes feel like they’ve been sandpapered. So I try every twenty minutes to stand and stare twenty feet for twenty seconds. Today as I was dutifully staring at the […]

When I posted a survey of which twitter text I should use to promote the relaunch of my novel “Obsessions of a Djinni,” I received great feedback, and a reaction that took me unawares (YIKES! Will anyone read further, having now encountered the dated word “unawares”?) Besides the majority who chose twitter promo two (see below), […]

I finished filling in a long form on a website, finally ready to preview. It was OK to go, but before I posted I had to write down the partially obscured and skewed letters and numbers in a box above. Then I clicked “post.” Red type appeared saying I had written a figure incorrectly and […]

The other day I typed “fantasy” into the search bar on Flipboard (part social app, part magazine and news app—kinda like Alltop, Guy Kawasaki’s app for newsworthy topics) and got the icon of an open book with the label “Sci-Fi & Fantasy.” I thought—even here? No matter if you’re searching through the aisles at Barnes […]