Questions to Accelerate Good Conversation
I began my professional life as a journalist, before moving into public relations and working on the other side of the microphone and the camera. Through those early years, I developed a list of questions that I used to draw out the “human” side of my...
Are You a Music Fan?
A beta reader for Crossing into the Mystic suggested that I was showing my age by having my character Clay – a young, brave, dashing, handsome guy, of course – describe the Eagles’ Greatest Hits album as the best one ever produced. Clay shares this thought while...
Dirt or Concrete?
I live on one end of this road. The world, on the other. I love that separating me from (or bridging me to…A matter of perspective?) that world is a red dirt road. A path made of earth—clay, sand and gravel that groans and shifts as if irritated when my shoes or...
Who Doesn’t Love an Award!?
Yesterday I was nominated for the Liebster Blog Award by my lovely and talented friend Cathy Baker from South Carolina! The Liebster Blog Award is given to bloggers by bloggers, as a way of acknowledging each other and saying, “You’re doing a great...
“What Makes You Think You Can Write?” – #7 (and final) in a Continuing Series
It’s Writing Monday… The final installment on the gloomy voices that plague writers and anyone involved in any creative process: Gloomy Voice #7 – Publishing will change you; you’ll lose your grounding, your sense of self. The truth: Publishing...
Historical intrigue interwoven with modern-day suspense and a touch of the mysterious.
Contemporary romantic suspense.
Coming-of-age sagas.
About Koontz’s Writing:
An award-winning writer, former journalist and corporate escapee, D. L. Koontz writes about what she knows: muddled lives, nail-biting unknowns and eternal hope. Growing up, she learned the power of stories and intrigue from saged storytellers on the front porch of her Allegheny Mountains farmhouse. Despite being waylaid for years by academia and corporate endeavors, her roots proved that becoming a writer of suspense was only a matter of time. She has been published in seven languages.
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