Category: Author

November 1st kicks of the month-long novel writing experience known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – what the official website calls “a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing.” http://nanowrimo.org/about

This event has always intrigued me, and I’ve considered participating. But November often found me working on a writing project that had a looming deadline. Also, I’m a solitary writer who doesn’t share much while writing, but this seemed like such a fun challenge.

This year, I’m in the happy position of having a television script due, before Thanksgiving, for a miniseries. So, no NaNoWriMo 2014 for me. And I …

Excerpt from the guest Blog by J.M. Kay,
author of Under the Shadow: Children of the First Star, Volume I – to be released on October 1, 2014; Publisher: www.BooksEndependent.com]

First posted at http://howlingturtle-pdx.blogspot.com/

I never thought I would write a book. My writing had always found its way into much shorter venues: poems, funny short stories, cartoons, even a short play here and there. I thought I didn’t have a story that warranted a piece of novel-sized length, until one afternoon, at the age of twenty-seven, I re-read an animated half-hour television pilot I had written. It was …

It’s difficult to explain how it feels when a reader, exactly the kind of unknown reader you hoped would discover the book, gives a review that completely captures all the enthusiasm for the story and characters that you had when creating it. This happened today when an 11-year-old girl posted her review on Amazon. A friend in upstate New York gave my book to a local librarian who gave it to this young reader. Here’s the scoop from the newest fan of Katrin’s Chronicles: The Canon of Jacquelene Dyanne, Vol. 1:

August 20th – Amazon Reader review:
“I loved all …