by joangrey | Jun 2, 2024 | Writing Life
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 | Writing Life
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 | Writing Life
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 | Writing Life
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,...
by joangrey | Jan 21, 2022 | Writing Life
I’ve been trying to read more. This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but, well. I’m having a hard time finding stories I really love. I can find many that are ‘good enough’, stories that I can finish, but few which really grab me by the lapels (if I wore...
by joangrey | Jan 13, 2022 | Writing Life
Getting out of bed is so hard. I know, I know, I was just complaining about this last week, but I don’t mean to complain. I think it’s reasonable to want to hibernate at times like this. Wintertime. When it’s cold and yucky out, and there’s only about ten minutes of...