Happy New Year's greetings to you! Please forgive me for not wishing you a Merry Christmas. I didn't realize that phrase isn't as common as I thought. You didn't know either? Well, I'd like to enlighten you with an event from last week. I found it disturbing. What was...

This past month, the book cover design brief has monopolized my time. After sorting through 3,500 Amazon book covers with dragons, I found five that feel like my book. These will inform my designer of what I like. Which takes us to the next step. For the MiniBuk...

I was wondering. Do you have plans for the summer? You’ve likely been asked two dozen times. My days will be divided between two things. Mostly. Writing and yarding. Is that a word? Although the End-of-School-Year craze consumed May, I completed the fourth Oracle of...

“If you don’t like the weather, wait a day.” That’s a common saying here in Virginia. Which is why, if you passed my house Easter evening, you would’ve seen a grape arbor transformed into a tent. We had a freeze warning. Temperatures fluctuate in April. But the 80...

Admitting defeat brought me to a victory. After three months of wrangling with my website, I asked Stormhill Media to step in and do the work. Good thing, too. It took an expert 5 hours to rework deniselajuanpeters.com. No wonder I failed. But even better news. An...