Autumn is apples, pie, spice, and crisp mornings and nights. The pumpkins and pumpkin tones dominate. Festivals and fun around the annual harvest run all over the hemisphere. Cozy time is here.

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is given below: Outside the usual autumn stuff, what else does the season hold for you annually? I’m not really an autumn person. The days gra…

Outside the usual autumn stuff, what else does the season hold for you annually?

Most of my time spent in the library, these days, is with my daughter, a nine-year-old. So you can imagine where I might be in the library. Do they have a fish tank? Is there a special event with anim...

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: What section of the library would we find you hanging out in? I worked as a library assistant from October 1980 to June 1982, just before my eld…

What section of the library would we find you hanging out in?

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Setting music aside, describe some of your favourite sounds. I’ll list them below, not in any kind of order, but as I think of them: Silen…

Sound is a powerful sense that can affect the human brain in numerous ways. The trend of ASMR took off because people respond well to sound. I mean, look at how much we enjoy music! Of course other so...

Setting music aside, describe some of your favorite sounds.

Being multi-faceted as an author makes you a stronger writer. Don't mistake that that means you have to be as good at the other things as you are at writing to make it matter. That is far from the tru...

Greetings from sunny Suffolk. Today’s blog hop topic is: Do you ever act out your scenes to immerse yourself and test them out, to be sure they really work? Not to actual scenes, but what I d…

Do you ever act out your scenes to immerse yourself and test them out, to be sure they really work?

Welcome to today’s blog hop, where the topic is as follows: From a writing perspective, how do you view advertisements for products or services (on TV, in magazines, online)? This is the last…

From a writing perspective, how do you view advertisements for products or services

Welcome to another blog hop – this time from the Isle of Wight and not from Suffolk. Today’s topic is: Name one thing that a writer should never do. I would say to never assume that lit…

Name one thing that a writer should never do.

What’s one thing about your writing that you would change if you could do it easily? Write more–there is nothing worse, some days, than the feeling of characters and plot queuing up in some d…

What’s one thing about your writing that you would change if you could do it easily?

(Pixabay:jmangi1) From the Aquarian Tarot, my first deck. Do you collect anything in particular? Before the move to Portugal, indeed, before my move to Maine from New Hampshire, I collected Tarot c…

Do you collect anything in particular?

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Have you included any of your major life events into your stories? The answer to that is yes. I write about what I know. I wrote about my initia…

Have you included any of your major life events into your stories?

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Have you modelled any of your characters on a real person? How do you disguise them (if needed)? Yes, I have modelled a few of my characters on …

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: What are you working on right now (as far as writing goes)? What’s going right? What’s going wrong? Over the winter I wrote a 50,000 word novel …

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Is there a childhood toy or book or item that you wish you still had? Being an only child I was quite protective of all my childhood possessions…

Is there a childhood toy or book or item that you wish you still had?

What have you done to make the world a better place?

June 29 2026 If you had to choose a new author name, what would it be? I started off as Bobbi Jo Aspen. That was back when I was writing poetry. I even had a few poems published under that name. I sti...

(pixabay:Vilkass) Do you wish you could travel the stars or the deep (oceans)? I’m not sure why I feel space is the place to travel over the deep ocean. Both entail harsh environments and the…

(pixabay:Vilkass) Do you wish you could travel the stars or the deep (oceans)? I’m not sure why I feel space is the place to travel over the deep ocean. Both entail harsh environments and the…

Do you wish you could travel the stars or the deep (oceans)?

Have you learned anything new this week (or recently?) Any topic. Learning to market my novel has been an ongoing experience. The last time I published, in 2017, I didn’t try half as hard to …

Have you learned anything new this week?

Do you have a favorite site for free photos to use with your writing? Or do you use paid photos? I’ve gone to Pixabay first for years and years now, and for author things I’ve used paid…

Do you have a favorite site for free photos to use with your writing?

Which of the senses is the hardest for you to include in your writing? I have to say it’s usually touch that’s hard to remember to include. Then smell. And taste. The world my most recent main char…

Which of the senses is the hardest for you to include in your writing?

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: We’ve talked about our favourite words. Are there words that you despise and won’t use? I despise a couple of swear words for sure, but all thes…

We’ve talked about our favorite words.

Stolen from Deanna Martinez-Bey and Writer’s Digest: What is on your joy list? Right now, walking is at the top of my joy list. I had a right hip replacement exactly one month ago. I had such inten…

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Stolen from Deanna Martinez-Bey and Writer’s Digest: What is on your joy list? Several things bring me joy, which I’ll list below: Good he…

Do you prefer pie or cake? Have you ever included either in your writing? Do I really have to choose? haha I have a complicated relationship with desserts. When I was a kid, my Sicilian grandmother…

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Do you prefer pie or cake? Have you ever included either in your writing? I like either one, but they are both very calorific and I am careful o…

Do you prefer pie or cake?

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Have you ever kept a diary? Are you still keeping one? How often do you add an entry? How could I not have kept a diary? I’m a writer, and…

Have you ever kept a diary?

Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is: Do any of your settings become characters in your stories? At first I didn’t really understand this topic and had to have a long think abo…

Do your settings become characters in your stories?

How many of you use Draft2Digital?

From your story’s point of view, how does it feel when you, the author, writes “The End?”