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Wanting to own my very own Tablet
Day after day, I surf the web for the latest news about the newest tablet offerings. There is an extraordinary number of news and commentary; seems as if everyone has an opinion. All my friends who...
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Launching a New Book: Daunting
These days, launching a new book project can be daunting indeed. Working with a traditional publisher is one thing, and has its own story to tell. Doing it all on your own through self-publishing is...
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AMBIGUOUS. Can a Straight Woman Write a Story About a Gay Man?
By the time I asked myself that question, we were already deeply into the project, and the thought of abandoning the book was not an option. After all, I had previously written a book that was far...
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Do Your Own Website?
Like many, or even most writers, expendable cash is limited, but long ago I invested in a domain name and a hosting site. I have always used Register.com, and the folks there have always been helpful...
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WWII Coming Home
Two of my second cousins were coming to visit us. I didn’t know what to expect. It was 1946, and I was nine years old living on a farm in Wisconsin with my parents, my aunt and uncle, their two boys,...
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Shutting Down or Becoming New?
Once upon a time, long long ago, I created my first website http://gettingtomaybe.com/. The whole idea of “Getting to Maybe” was that if, in one’s thinking, he or she can get to “maybe,” then there is...
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What’s Up With These Middle-Aged Children?
Back in the mid-1980s when I worked as an admissions counselor in a retirement home, I noticed the differing ways that middle-aged “children” behaved with their elderly parents. While some seemed to...
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Update on the Protagonist in “Ambiguous”
If you have read my most recent novel Ambiguous, you know that story was based on the experiences of a friend of mine who was struggling with gender identification during a time when it was dangerous...
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The One a Day Solution
I’m overwhelmed. I can’t think. I can’t plan. I don’t have writer’s block; that’s never happened to me, but something is going on. Something else. Among the many tasks of ordinary daily living, I am...
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When an Author has an Agenda
A few days ago, I finished reading a couple of books: Project Cain for young adults, and its counterpart: Cain’s Blood for adults both published by Simon & Schuster in 2013. I’m a rather prolific...
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The Nastier Side of Book Publicity
What is the impact on young teens of inappropriate book publicity? Serious writers read. . . a lot! I am no exception. I love books, print or ebooks, fiction or nonfiction; it doesn’t matter to me....
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Music Such as Never Heard Before!
Disclaimer: I know little about music, rarely listen to it, even in the car, (I like silence) but am just beginning to learn jazz piano simply because I do like the sound of that. I’m currently...
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When to Listen to Reviewers
Good reviewers are prolific readers and deserve to be listened to. Tough stuff, those reviews. We authors had better have a tough skin when reading reviews of our books, yet there may be a better...
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HERE is the Answer. Follow me.
The pervasiveness of attempts at mind control is so everywhere present in today’s world that we almost take it for granted. It has become a part of who we are as human beings to convince others to...
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Too Late! Too Late!
The winter of our lives comes unanticipated. Even if we feel some urgency to get something finished before winter comes, the first snowfall is always a surprise. We look out the window to observe it....
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Taking Back our Country
This book, Dirty Wars, sat on my shelf for a few months before I decided to read it partly because it is almost two inches thick and a bit intimidating. But since I will soon be hearing the author...
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Angry Teens
I am a mother and grandmother from Norwegian-American ethnicity with green eyes and graying hair. I worked for most of my life, and have lived among numerous other ethnic groups, some where I felt like...
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Midnight Thoughts
R. Z. Halleson:I think that you are not alone in your feelings. I am re-blogging this post to http://halleson.net. I also forwarded a link to my grandson who is pretty much in the same situation that...
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Almost There….
I finally made the leap into what might be called the Indie writers "big time!" I walked through that magic door and created a limited liability publishing company for R.Z. Halleson and Associates to...
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The Dalai Lama and The Christians, (Well… a few.)
When devoted Christians begin to study the remarks of a non-theist, how they react may surprise you. Continue reading →
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