Tonight my fiction writers' group is meeting to discuss my new middle-grade novel in progress. They're a very generous bunch and ha...

It's official--I signed the contract for Madcap Players to produce Constant State of Panic for a three-week run in Washington, DC, in J...

We just got back from almost two weeks of vacation to visit family and friends in Michigan, Illinois, and Colorado. This is the view I had ...

I had a big plan for July--Noah was going to be in school/camp every morning, so I'd have a chance to do major revisions, a couple hours...

This story appeared in our local paper (and on their web site) today. It's a project that's been brewing for a few months and has b...

Agent Nathan Bransford's blog has a great guest post about the process of how books get sold from the publisher to the book stores (and...

In my fantasy life, sessions with my fiction group would go like this: Writer 1: Pat, I just have to say, this is the most brilliant thing ...