We are hard-wired to want it simple.  Long ago (400 million years) there was only one basic premise under which we operated –Stay Alive!  The conscious part of our brains was evolutionarily geared for simplicity, so we could decide things like where to go hunt and not worry about how to make our bodies get there. 

Even today, we don’t ponder how to, say, drink a cup of coffee.  We are happily oblivious of all the electronic, chemical, and muscular complexities required to accomplish…

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There’s a lot to worry about.

We are worried our investment dollars may not poof back into existence when they poof out. We worry about inflation and that gas prices are too high, or about deflation and that they will go too low.  Writers worry that our stuff will not be good enough, or read enough, or we will have “writer’s block” and not write enough, or will write too much and have to cut … and (yikes!) what if we cut the wrong stuff? We worry that agents or…

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How do you know?  This question has plagued me for a long time, and I saw it recently on a writing web site, so I am not the only one who has asked it.  For a long time, I was unpublished and wrote in the “closet.”  I was afraid if I admitted to doing it (writing, folks) I would have to face that dreaded question:  “Oh, what have you published?”  To which, I’d have to say, “Well, nothing… but my mother loves my… Continue

What do you do when someone comes to a sponsored event (like a bookstore) and asks you to sign a book they've purchased elsewhere? This great question was posted on Carol Hoenig's blog-Authors Behaving Badly: What not to do at your book signing event).



When my book first came out (Noah's Wife) I was so excited that poor check-out clerks at Wal-mart had to endure me talking about it and presenting them with a business card. I wanted to stop everyone I passed on the street and share… Continue