First Time Ever!

I am thrilled to announce that my latest manuscript has been accepted by a publishing house and will be released on August 15th! This new book is a romance novel I will be publishing under the pen name Penny Wells. The working title of the book (subject to change) is “The Heart of the Alchemist”,…

Why oh Why

I was sitting in a park (I’m always at a park) when it came to me, the thing that I have been trying to answer for two years. I turned it in my mind, looking at it from all sides. It was a match. Quietly, I tucked the thing away and went on. I needed…

Not Just a Genre 

Lately I’ve noticed a shift in the way I think of myself as a writer. For a long time, I thought of myself as a writer of many interests. I wrote poetry, prose, short stories, science fiction, non-fiction, fiction, fantasy, and a novel. Then I found out that this isn’t normal. According to everyone I…

Flooded With Potential

Last week, Stephen and I completed our first European house sit. It was a lovely family with a well-mannered dalmatian that we took for walks in a beautiful park. We unpacked our bags for the first time in weeks, showered regularly, washed all of our clothes, ate 3 hot meals a day, rested our feet,…

The Greenhouse Effect

Today marks exactly 4 months that I’ve been a homeless, nomadic backpacker. I have been in England for 3 1/2 weeks. In this time, I have journaled every day, worked on bits of story, and before we got to England I published my newest rider in ‘The Empyrean Series’, ‘Inteneration‘. This week, for the first…