Author: Laurie Buchanan

Laurie Buchanan is the author of the Sean McPherson series of thrillers. You can find out more about her on her website, www.lauriebuchanan.com, or by clicking here, read her last post here, and buy her books here. Before I retired from HolEssence—my private practice where I was a holistic health practitioner—I used a wide variety of healing modalities. One of the most effective therapies is therapeutic writing. When integrated as adjunctive therapy in an overall treatment plan, it can promote psychological healing. Most of us write alone. It’s a solitary experience. But in the back of our minds, we have…

Laurie Buchanan is the author of the Sean McPherson thriller series. You can find out more about her on her website, www.lauriebuchanan.com, or by clicking here, read her last post here, and buy her books here. If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance that you’re a writer, published or not. It doesn’t matter. There’s an even higher chance that, at some point, fear has kept you from writing. Here are a few common writing-related fears: Everyone has fears. They might include spiders, heights, confined spaces, or something else. Am I genuinely talented, or just a perpetual wannabe? If…

Laurie Buchanan is the author of the Sean McPherson series of thrillers. You can find out more about her on her website www.lauriebuchanan.com, or by clicking here, read her latest post here, and buy her books here. In fiction books, redemption arcs are tied to a character—the protagonist, antagonist, or even a secondary character—and vary by the author’s intention, genre, plot, and characters. The dictionary defines redemption as “An act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake.” In the definition, the word “act” implies action. Choices create action. A redemption arc is when a character performs a heroic…

Laurie Buchanan writes the Sean McPherson series of thrillers. You can find out more about her on her website www.lauriebuchanan.com, or by clicking here, read her last post here, and see her books here. When asked about the details of my preferred writing environment—the setting and the ambiance—I share that I’m a bare-bones writer who enjoys solitude. As a dyed-in-the-wool minimalist, I appreciate nothing more on my desk than a laptop and lit tea light—my “contract” to show up, stay put, and write. To avoid distraction, I turn off my cell phone and limit my writing screen to two ingredients:…

Laurie Buchanan is the author of the Sean McPherson mystery series. You can find out more about her here, see her books here, and read her last post here. Words, words, words. Writers string them together in a specific order to create stories and draw readers to their work. And if we’re fortunate, we keep them there, turning page after page.  But sometimes, readers stop short. They get in a page or two, maybe even more, and then close the book. Decide to quit. Why didn’t they stay? What went wrong?  That’s hard to say without seeing the work, but experientially…

Laurie Buchanan is the author of the Sean McPherson novels, including Indelible. You can read more about her here, see her books here, and read her last post here. Though I’m a full-time writer now, I used to be a holistic health practitioner. When I had my private practice, one of the many energy-based modalities I used was color therapy. Color is simply energy; energy made visible. As human beings, color is the only energy we can see. While the speed of light is a constant 186,282 miles per second, the speed of color—its frequency—travels at varying rates depending on…

Laurie Buchanan is looking forward to the April 6th release of Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One. Find out more about Laurie here. This is her first post for us. My dad was a pilot. My sister’s a pilot. Three of my uncles are pilots, and my nephew’s a pilot. It’s no wonder that I married a pilot. And while I’m not a pilot, I do take the annual Flight Companion Seminar taught by the Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots. Could I land the plane in the event of an emergency? Possibly. Probably. But let’s not test the theory,…