Freedom for Me: A Chinese Yankee comes out this November from 5050 Press. As I work with my publishers on post-production and editing of my

Any writer who has persevered through the gauntlet of revising, polishing, querying, and rejections can certainly appreciate the value of bottling the feeling of really good days—the ones where the like of a Tweet, a note of positive feedback, or the process of writing re-energizes you to keep on keeping on. This blog post is my effort to capture and preserve that feeling because it’s been that kind of week for me. It started with a #PitMad Twitter event last Thursday. I hadn

I am once again revising my middle-grade historical fiction novel. After the years I've spent finishing this book, one might think that

I am often asked why I am a student of the American Civil War or of American history in general. It starts with patriotism for me— simple lo

This is my entry to a Flash Fiction challenge sponsored by Indies Unlimited. With this photo (attribution K.S. Brooks) and the following writing prompt, the challenge was to write flash fiction of 250 words. Writing Prompt: Donovan basked lazily in the hammock as the gentle Caribbean breeze caressed him. Alone on this tiny out-of-the-way island, he could at last live the simple life. Here, he could just let time wash over him. He ate fresh fish and crab and fruit. He didn’t h

I don’t know how on-the-verge authors do this, the waiting, I mean. I suspect many of them have agents and that, once their completed manusc

Author Stacie Haas explains why she writes.