Jinx Schwartz’s Water Writes Blog
On writing, boating, and the occasional rant.
Jinx Featured in Publishing and Promoting Books Newsletter
Being an indie author means that you have to not only write the books, but also promote them. The folks at Publishing & Promoting Books recently featured Jinx in How Jinx Schwartz Promotes Her Books. If you’ve ever been curious about how an author can give away books…
The Road Less Taken
We just spent a month in La Paz, BCS, where I wrote a lot, had a couple of great book events, and then, on the way home, we took a shortcut. We normally cross the border south of San Diego, but while we were down south we heard the pavement from San Felipe (Mex 5) to…
NOT your Viking Riverboat Cruise! 11 days, 118 kms, 66 locks.
When my husband, Robert “Mad Dog” Schwartz, and I were looking for a special way to celebrate our twenty-fifth anniversary, we investigated European boat rentals. While we’d seen ads for those tempting riverboat cruises, elegance is not our style….
HAD IT !!!
Every reader harbors writing pet peeves, and one of mine is the word, HAD. Not that it isn’t a perfectly good word; it has its uses. It is overuse that drives me nuts…and I’m already pretty far down that road. So here I was, all tucked in and happily…
GENRE-BENDING EVOLUTION?
Day was (and I won’t name that day, lest I end up with an expiration date stamped on my forehead) that if a book featured cowboys and Indians, it was a WESTERN. Unless said cowboy fell in love with a beautiful Indian princess, then we had a LOVE STORY. Then a…
Jeez, who wrote that stuff? Dusting off a half-written book, and resuscitating my blog.
Hetta’s back! After being MIA for far too long, Hetta Coffey has resurfaced in the Sea of Cortez, and it doesn’t take her long to find trouble. I spent last winter afloat in the Sea, breathing life back into Hetta. I had Just the Pits (at the time…
Mexico, a writer’s paradise…or is it?
So, I live on a boat several months out of the year. Preferably at anchor. Lots of time to write, right? Wrong. Conception Bay, Baja California, Sur, is where we spent this winter. At anchor. With sketchy Internet, no electricity or running water on shore, and 25…