Category Archives: Amber Foxx

The Fig Tree, Yoga, and the Middle of the Book

Posted on July 26, 2018 by

At first glance, the fig tree in the courtyard outside my apartment looks like a round mound of large green leaves and tiny green fruits. Today, I studied it longer, though, and began to see golden-brown fruit hidden in the … Continue reading →

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Call Me Inaccessible

Posted on June 28, 2018 by

Cell phones are so convenient in real life life and so inconvenient in fiction when you want to strand a city girl on an unlit road in the desert on a cold winter night. So inconvenient when you want characters … Continue reading →

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Lessons from a Flawed-io-book

Posted on May 24, 2018 by

I seldom finish a book I don’t like, but I recently got all the way to the end of a romantic suspense audiobook that I almost gave up on.  Since I was usually exercising or doing housework while I listened, … Continue reading →

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Disorienting Dilemma

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

I came across this concept in a textbook on wellness coaching: people are most likely to change when they’re faced with a disorienting dilemma. Immediately, I shifted gears from my fitness professional role to thinking as a writer. Disorienting. I … Continue reading →

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Bad Actors

Posted on February 22, 2018 by

Mysteries, even the lighter ones, touch on the darker side of human nature. There is a wrong to be righted, not just a puzzle to solve. Since I don’t write about murder, I alternate between what I think of crimes … Continue reading →

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Small Change, Big Change

Posted on January 25, 2018 by

When I started improvising my current work in progress, I had a seed for a plot in mind, but it changed directions because of one small thing. My first-round chapter-by-chapter critique partner told me that the name I was using … Continue reading →

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Butt in Chair?

Posted on December 28, 2017 by

As a yoga teacher and a retired professor of Health and Exercise Science, I tend to consider how everything I do affects my body. Following the adage to “write what you know,” I made my protagonist a fitness instructor and … Continue reading →

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