by Jacquie Rogers
Copyright © 2010 Jacquie Rogers
Situation: A 30-year-old man named Joe calls his mother, Betty, and says he’s sick. The mother drops everything and goes to his house to nurse him.
What do we know about Joe? Why did he call his mother instead of his wife [...]
That’s point of view.
We know what we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch, but we can never be sure how someone else senses those same stimuli, if they noticed at all.
Let’s say you’re thirty years old and you see an eighty-year-old arthritic woman take a full minute to get out of [...]
Here come the Texty Ladies! Some of us, anyway. The rest will be here when they get here. 2009 was a bit busy for us all, but we’re all dedicated to this site and we’ll be hanging around more.
So . . .
Magic Monday is back!
To celebrate, we’re [...]
Jacquie Rogers, Author
by Jacquie Rogers
Copyright © 2009 Jacquie Rogers
Reprinted from 1st Turning Point
Your book is out, waiting to be purchased by eager readers, and you’re on the promotion circuit. In a flash of genius, you signed up for a featured-author [...]
Every once in a while, a friend and I go out of the area for a writers’ retreat. This isn’t sponsored by anyone or anything–it’s just us–Judith Laik and I, and sometimes our two other friends can make it if we’re lucky. We pack up our clothes, food, and writing materials . [...]
Things happen.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my experience with publishing a novella on the Kindle, called Faery Merry Christmas. Publishing is one thing–selling books is something else altogether. It requires time, effort, a little (lot of) money, and a boatload of luck (which you [...]
Our modern sensibilities tell us certain aspects of our lives have “always been that way.” Not so. When we write historicals, we need to research the attitudes and mores of that particular time period, and incorporate that richness into our stories.
Take drugs, in the 19th Century, for instance. At one time, [...]
The law was a bit sparse in the Old West, often not a lawman around for hundreds of miles. If a criminal knew how to live off the land and he owned a fast horse, he was pretty well guaranteed an escape. What’s a sheriff to do?
In 1872, the Supreme Court [...]
Once upon a time I had a story idea that was set in San Francisco in the 1850s, and it involved a Chinese girl. Knowing little about the Chinese culture in this decade and how it translated to the New World, I spent a considerable amount of time hopping from one topic [...]
Every once in a while, something truly joyous reminds us that the world is filled with light and that love will conquer all.
Even neurofibromatosis.
Okay, NF wasn’t quite conquered, but certainly beaten into submission. No matter how NF ravages Mercedes’ body, [...]
