I am a good person. A kind person. I love animals. I brake for pedestrians. I return my shopping cart to the cart corral. Usually. Yet, as a writer, I spend my ‘work day’ thinking about how to make my characters miserable, and it’s rare that a day goes by that I don’t think about…
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The Shelf of Fiction I Would Save in a Fire
I am a horrible person. At least when it comes to fiction. I judge mercilessly. I fling aside into the DNF pile with wild abandon. I curl my lip at typos and sneer at poor word-smithing. I flip the bird (and sometimes the book) at puerile plotting. However, over the course of my life, I…
If You Write Fiction, Read Non-Fiction
I am insatiably curious. This has led to a slight issue (some might say addiction) with buying books. Non-fiction books. For an author, my actual collection of fiction is quite small. That’s probably because I’m such a picky bitch about the caliber of storytelling and writing I will read. But, non-fiction? OMG, it’s a real…
Why I Canceled Kindle Unlimited
It’s the start of a new blog – sort of. File it under “The Sort of Thing That Only Happens to Cait.” It began with going to my blog and seeing that all my images had disappeared…and ended up learning more about Bollywood porn spammers than I ever wanted to. Long story short (because I’d…