by Joan Grey | Oct 31, 2025
Cozy is all over, right now. Everything is cozy. (I’m not complaining, but it’s interesting to see.) Cozy is often called a genre, or a sub-genre, though it’s one which seems hard to define. There are a few common ideas: small scale conflict (or no conflicts at all)...
by Joan Grey | Jul 28, 2025
40 hours of audio narration! I’m super proud. In an effort to learn how to make my own audiobooks – I can’t afford a professional narrator, so I thought I’d learn to be a professional narrator – I started making audiobooks of fanfiction, which is called...
by joangrey | Jun 2, 2024
Okay, so. I write against tropes, a lot of the time. I’m finishing up a paranormal women’s fiction series in which there’s: no sex, no romance, lots of laundry and grocery shopping, a MC who’s An Actual Adult (she doesn’t jump to conclusions, she pays attention to...
by joangrey | Jan 23, 2024
Well, the cats have the right idea. It’s cold out, so we should bundle up under as many blankets as we can. Peaches was wondering why I bothered to get out of bed at all, though her brother wanted me to go downstairs and give them the day’s serving of...
by joangrey | Feb 7, 2022
Exciting news! I finished writing the third Kay novel! Now it’s at the beta readers, getting marked up and ready. Soon (very soon), I plan on publishing it for everyone to read. Eeek! I just have to write the blurb for it, which I’m not looking forward to. I don’t...
by joangrey | Jan 28, 2022
It’s been a stressful week. There’s a blizzard coming on Saturday, and our furnace broke on Thursday night. We spent all day Friday dealing with the repair – and also with the fact that our internet was down. All day. The repairman was nice and, even more importantly,...
