Round Robin: The Books We Haven’t Written Yet, Part II

Janet Dawson: Okay, fellow Perseverance Press bloggers – I know we’ve all got a million words percolating around in our heads. What book would you like to write, but for one reason or another, you haven’t yet written said book? And why? Not enough time? Not the right time? Not a viable project? Needs more [...]

Round Robin: The Books We Haven’t Written Yet – Part I

Janet Dawson: Okay, fellow Perseverance Press bloggers – I know we’ve all got a million words percolating around in our heads. What book would you like to write, but for one reason or another, you haven’t yet written said book? And why? Not enough time? Not the right time? Not a viable project? Needs more [...]

The Grand Elopement

Wendy Hornsby I just don’t get Facebook.  Twice now I’ve hit the wrong button and sent messages that either weren’t what I intended or targeted someone I did not intend. I admit that I haven’t put much time or effort into learning to love Facebook, or to becoming at all familiar or proficient with a [...]

What Does Your Cat Think of You? Animals in Our Books

                                                                                                      by Nancy Means Wright      I’ve long been familiar with Jane Goodall’s work with chimpanzees, showing  them to be intelligent, social animals like ourselves. Or with scientists’ studies of grackles and crows who have learned to solve problems, use tools, and recognize faces (plot for a novel?) And I read with amazement the tale of [...]

Rescue! Or At Least Respite

Rescue! Or At Least Respite  It occurs to me often these days that a  person—or a couple, or a family—should probably move house every ten years or so. But my husband and I live in a congenial   neighborhood of midsized, mostly-1930’s houses where people tend to stay put, with the occasional new roof or  maybe [...]

The Case of the Flaming Fiat

When I write another Jake Samson book, I think I’ll give him a 1976 Fiat Spider Roadster. I’m hoping it won’t be in memoriam. I don’t know what I’ll do about his ’64 Ford Falcon. When I got tired of his ’53 Bel Air I had some fool steal it and wreck it. Jake is [...]

Back Story Blues by Sheila Simonson (Buffalo Bill’s Defunct)

I tend to get interested in back story to the extent that I lose track of the main plot.  I do this both as a writer and as a reader, but it’s obviously more of a problem for me as a writer.  Right now I’m stuck in a novel in which back stories have overwhelmed [...]

A Virtual Ride

by Laura Crum I probably never would have started writing were it not for my passion for horses. It was my desire to portray the western horse world that I loved so much, along with my admiration for the horse-themed mystery novels of Dick Francis, that set me on the path to writing mysteries about [...]

Puzzling it Through

by Taffy Cannon              I can’t remember a time when I didn’t enjoy jigsaw puzzles, and my first specific memory is the satisfaction of correctly positioning all 48 states in their USA frame.  I also recall Wyoming being impossible to differentiate from Colorado and confess that to this day I can never  remember if [...]

Welcome to Lea Wait’s Study ….

 Until about seven years ago I’d never had a “room of my own,” at least one designated just for writing, not for sleeping, eating, watching TV, soothing fevered brows, or reading bedtime stories. Of course, I’d dreamed about having one, and I’d planned one. And so when the oyster shell plaster walls in part of my 1774 home began [...]