"no awe could measure / that brief day's endless length"

Good Friday is an odd holiday. It asks us to contemplate how truly broken humanity is. For when God deigns to walk among us, our instinct is always to reject, torture, annihilate....

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Plot stuck? Rewind

I recently returned from my first writing retreat, which was a somewhat tough experience, because I was trying to wrangle a "problem child" manuscript. Forcing myself to write...

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Book love builds community

One of my neighbors is a wonderfully eccentric homeschooling mom who painted her Edwardian-era home purple, gold and teal and keeps chickens in her tiny yard, a block from the...

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The beauty of the weird

I'm over at Crystal Collier's blog today, talking about how I got started writing poetry and my attraction to the offbeat and the "beauty of the weird." Please stop on by and...

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Muddy-Fingered Midnights

The happy day has arrived! It's release day for my first-ever poetry collection. Muddy-Fingered Midnights poems from the bright days  and dark nights of the soul This...

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Guest post: Maturing a Character Across a Series

by Michelle Davidson Argyle I have two books out that are considered a series—The Breakaway (about a girl who’s kidnapped and falls in love with her kidnapper) and Pieces (about...

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No lie: why we misuse lay

Dear Editor-on-call: I always have trouble with lay and lie. I've heard that people lie and objects lay but it always sounds odd to me to say, "I'm lying here" instead of "I'm...

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What every Indie author should know about color

Once you take the Indie plunge, you might be tempted to be very hands-off with the vendors to whom you outsource tasks. Especially your cover designer. Writing is verbal, design...

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Interviews & articles

Welcome!  This page is a compilation of all my guest appearances around the Internet. Learn more about my fiction, poetry and writing tips. Contact To request an interview,...

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