The Casual Author

In this episode, I dive into how I'm researching some of my favorite books to work on my own writing craft. I talk about the challenges we've had with getting our cow's hooves trimmed, and the effects of not having them trimmed regularly. I discuss progress on my work in progress and plans for the future. With Meghan,

In this episode, I talk about managing winter on the homestead, from keeping water unfrozen to cleaning up pens. I dive into some additional challenges about having a flock of chickens and our gratefully increased egg production. From an author standpoint, I give updates about my writing progress on my next book, as we

In this episode, I talk about the complexity of the daily homstead chores and how I had to optimize them so that I could go on a business trip this past week. I dive into writing the fourth book of The Hidden Heritage series and some of the challenges, both good and bad, with writing a character in first person that ca

In this episode, I talk about winter management on the homestead and what things we are thinking about as we take care of the animals day to day. I dive into the logistics of our goat operations around breeding and how we've had to shuffle them around a bit to make sure we have the right goat kids at the right time. Th

In this episode, I talk about the new newsletter for the podcast at www.thecasualauthor.com and how to sign up for it. You learn more about the ins and outs of winterizing a homestead when it comes to feed, water and shelters. Ginger's milk decreased alarmingly fast and unexpectedly over the past couple weeks and I tel

In this episode, I dive into some changes that I'm making to the podcast schedule and email list. I share about our homestead 'winter cleanup' efforts and talk about building a new structure for our cow to live in. I share some helpful resources for authors looking to upscale their authoring, primarily in podcast inter