Unleashed Imaginations

Well, that was interesting! I just made my podcast debut on the Caffeinated Cryptid Podcast.  Gulp. It posted yesterday. Have you ever watched yourself talk? It's like looking in a funhouse mirror, but I survived and even felt pretty at ease. Now, fingers crossed, other podcasters will invite me to gab about cryptids. Research is my jam, especially when it involves cryptids. For my novel "ROPEN ISLAND," I got up close and personal with Pterodons and Pterodactyls. Nothing sets my fingers on fire like diving into unknown territory, whether it's conjuring reluctant heroes or exploring uncharted flora and fauna. It's all part of my storytelling escapades. At the moment, I'm wrapping up another novel, "LOST CITY OF QUATRIA," set in 1900 Antarctica. I'm on the final lap—last hundred pages—and boy, it's the hardest part. I don’t want to mess it up. When I start writing, I usually have a clear vision of the beginning and the ending. My characters ste...

  First Blog…Lois Buchter They said it would be easy to set up my website on WordPress… they lied. Years ago, I made a website on WordPress. It was difficult, but I managed to get something together. Now, it's a mangled mess of themes that don't address what you want, plug-ins with a wealth of stuff I can't understand. To say the site isn't user friendly is an understatement. Guess I'll have to hire someone whose jam is digging into the tangled mass of a fishing line that just embedded into my cheek. Ugh. I've got a new novel coming out, an audio children's fairytale (based on an ebook I published years ago), and another novel halfway finished….two more screaming to be done. This will be my life-path, just took me a little longer than I thought to get here. I didn't know I was going to be a writer. That internal dialogue kept referring to the "reader" side of my life. "You aren't a writer, you're a reader." That ...