Grendel at the beach When I first met my ex-husband, he had a soul-mate dog — a smallish black lab named Satan. This dog had super powers. He could dive to the bottom of the swimming pool to retrieve a bone, he could leap any fence, and he once destroyed about twenty people’s shoes at…

(Photo by Ryan Seiler, Public Domain) When I was getting ready to publish my historical fiction series, I read all I could about marketing and branding and blah blah blah. Frankly, I was scared to death of doing my own promoting. Before I wrote my historical fiction novels, I had several books published by respectable…

When I first started The Burning Bride, I had no idea that Emma Goldman was publishing a magazine for anarchists called Mother Earth or that a 21-year-old man was leading an army of hungry unemployed men into churches demanding that they adhere to the teachings of Jesus and house and feed the hungry. Some of…