Tuesday Tales: Writing Plaid

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week’s word prompt is plaid. My snippet is from #7 in the Wytchfae series. It is a paranormal fantasy romance featuring the rebellious half-sister of… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Plaid

Tuesday Tales: Writing Hardy

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week’s word prompt is hardy. My snippet is from #7 in the Wytchfae series. It is a paranormal fantasy romance featuring the rebellious half-sister of… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Hardy

Tuesday Tales: Writing Cocktail

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week’s picture prompt is cocktail. My snippet is from #7 in the Wytchfae series. It is a paranormal fantasy romance featuring the rebellious half-sister of… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Cocktail

Fae Friday: Thracian Moon Goddess

Ancient Thrace has always fascinated me. It was a geographical region in and around the northern part of today’s Turkey and Bulgaria, with Romania to the north. The Aegean Sea bordered ancient Thrace to the south with the Greek civilization to the west, the Black Sea to the east, and the Balkan Mountains to the… Continue reading Fae Friday: Thracian Moon Goddess

Tuesday Tales: Writing Hardly

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week’s word prompt is hardly. My snippet is from a medieval romance featuring a knight and a lady caught in times of turmoil and war.… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Hardly

Fae Friday: Fire Elementals

In magic and fairy lore, salamanders are elemental fire spirits that are named after the lizard-like amphibians called salamanders. Traditionally, their appearance is identical to the amphibians. Only a person with second sight or heightened sensitivity or who is trained in the magical arts (such as my heroines the Wytchfae) can distinguish the elementals from… Continue reading Fae Friday: Fire Elementals

Vintage Friday: Life in 1919

Can you imagine the world 100 years ago? 1919 was my father’s birth year, as well as an all-around momentous time in our cultural history. About thirty years prior, modern baking powder came into availability as a leavening agent for the home cook. Leavening creates air pockets to make a cake or quick bread rise… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Life in 1919

Tuesday Tales: Writing Ruins

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week’s picture prompt is ruins. My snippet is from a medieval romance featuring a knight and a lady caught in times of turmoil and war.… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Ruins

Tuesday Tales: Writing Flower

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week’s word prompt is flower. My snippet is from a medieval romance featuring a knight and a lady caught in times of  turmoil and war.… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Flower

Tuesday Tales: Writing Rancid

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week’s word prompt is rancid. My snippet is from a medieval romance featuring a knight and a lady caught in times of turmoil and war.… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Rancid