My genre is young adult science fiction. I also write young-adult fantasy novels and adult speculative fiction, but for the moment I’m focusing on young adult science fiction because that is the genre of my last novel, VR. The Hunger Games meets The Matrix in VR, my YA sci-fi novel about a young woman’s escape from […]
Recently I was sitting at St. Mark’s with Sarah, a writer and friend from Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and she asked me, “What’s your genre?” My answer was quick, “General fiction with speculative elements and mild erotica.” She may have thought it was a simple question. What she didn’t know is that I have been “forced” […]
Continuing the series on overcoming writers block, here is the next tip: Tip #4) Choose to take a break Sometimes overcoming writers block requires that we choose to take a break. One of my favorite don Juan quotes is in Carlos Castaneda’s book, title, when he says, “Warriors do not demolish walls. They move under […]
This year I won 1st place in the category of science fiction for my novel VR! 
