Where the action is

Hello, again! Quick Update! We survived The Great Website and Domain Migration. Well, except for a few casualties, such as all the images from all the blog posts on both websites.Many are in the Gallery section of the dashboard, but not all. So, I need to replace them...

News: Third Place in a Contest!

I’m psyched to report the first twenty pages of my mystery-in-progress FATAL IMAGE won third place in the Mystery/Suspense category of the 2015 New England Readers Award for Unpublished Work. My sample pages came in behind those written by Maya Corrigan and...

Broken Link Blues

I spent Saturday, May, 30, at the UPublishU conference associated with the 2015 Book Expo America in New York. One of the presentations included information about SEO, aka Search Engine Optimization. One of my many takeaways from the sessions is: Google penalizes...

SWOT what?

It’s a noun, not a verb. A few years ago, a young marketing exec joined one of my local writers’ groups. Jennifer Fusco was determined to write fiction for publication, so she joined Connecticut Romance Writers Association (CTRWA). A North Carolina native,...

Who you gonna call?

Do-It-Yourself is great, until you get in over your head. When I was updating “plug-ins” on The Horsey Set Net, the blog crashed. When I returned to the blog’s WordPress dashboard, a white screen of error messages confronted me. I logged off and...

Camera shy in the age of social media? Tips!

Most of my writer pals step up to smile at the camera’s unblinking eye. God bless ’em. I sure have a terrible time doing it. Maybe it’s a holdover from my old job? Then … Back in the day, I worked for a daily newspaper. Although I was a General...