Ten Things That Make Great Gifts for Writers Books: We write them, we read them, we love them. There isn't a single book gift I've received that I haven't wallowed in during the holidays, especially when it's a surprise book. One year a friend of...

The kids and I went on Saturday to see New Moon, mainly to avoid all the crazed Twilight fans who packed the theaters for the Thursday midnight and Friday shows. Still, the show we planned to see was sold out when we arrived (15 minutes before start...

I'm hoping by the time this post shows up on the blog that I've completed 50K and made my NaNoWriMo goal. But if I haven't, I'm sure you'll forgive me; we've still got nine days left. This past week for me has been all about striking back. I got...

Ten Things You Can Have for Nothing Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive. ALEX Personal Knowledge Base is "a very simple tool to organize your knowledge,...

NY Time bestselling author Bob Mayer has joined the line-up over at my group blog, Genreality, and his first post is already up. Google has this image search thing called Image Swirl that is currently in demo stage, but looks pretty neat; evidently...