September 30, 2026
I received an email the first week of September regarding the Anthropic Copyright Settlement. I have two books that have met the necessary requirement to be included. The primary requirement is to have an official copyright. I had more than two books used by Anthropic, but my publisher evidently didn’t actually file a copyright the […]
September 2, 2026
The Conversation My July 23, 2026 blog “Is Anyone Reading Books” Here was about a decline in reading. Since then, I’ve read a counter article in the August 4, 2026 newsletter THE CONVERSATION. The article is titled, “What the panic over Gen Z’s reading habits gets wrong.” https://theconversation.com/what-the-panic-over-gen-zs-reading-habits-gets-wrong-288338 Basically, the article states that […]
May 21, 2026
Early April I wrote a blog about updating the past Here. Well, I’m halfway through retyping the book and I’ve run into an interesting problem. Link, my male main character, is a man who would buy and drive a flashy, expensive car. In the original version of CHASE THE DREAM, he drives a Jaguar. I […]
February 11, 2026
A few weeks ago, a writer friend called and said her book club was going to read THRILL OF THE CHASE, one of my Loveswept Romances. She wanted to know if I had some extra copies; they were having trouble finding any. So I looked. When we first moved into this condo, I put copies […]
December 31, 2025
It’s been an interesting year. AI is really having an impact on the publishing world. I’m now part of (a very small part) a class action suit where writers’ published works have been used to train AI. It will be interesting to see if I get any money from that. And, I hate to admit […]
October 1, 2025
Why should you copyright your book? The Copyright Act of 1976 stated that in the United States any creative work (writings, music, drama, etc) is copyrighted the moment it is created. So why should writers pay money to copyright their work? Some would say having an “official” copyright makes suing a plagiarizer easier, that you […]