Non-Fiction – Robin Jeffrey

Werewolf Wednesday

Happy Werewolf Wednesday, everyone! This week I’m going to talk about one of the questions I get most often about my work: Why werewolves? As a paranormal romance author, I could have written about any number of magical, otherworldly, creatures: sirens, ghosts, vampires, the list goes on and on. But I chose werewolves.

Behind the Scenes Sunday

Let’s take a peek at the cogs inside the machine and talk about why I write and how I write on Behind the Scenes Sunday! Today I’d like to talk about the bane of my existence, the thing that torments me from the minute I start writing a book until the moment I have to package it for editors and literary agents: PICKING. A. TITLE.

“Taking a Drink from a Fire Hydrant”: How Do We Find Information? (Part 3 of 4)

There are many models, paradigms, and theories discussed in the field of library and information science that are used to interpret and define the information behavior of the everyday user. The results from these analyses provide information that has the potential to make libraries in general and information retrieval systems more specifically much more efficientContinue reading ““Taking a Drink from a Fire Hydrant”: How Do We Find Information? (Part 3 of 4)”

“Taking a Drink from a Fire Hydrant”: How Do We Find Information? (Part 2 of 4)

It is helpful first to view the information that was present in every part of my experience as existing in the three typologies that are posited by Brenda Dervin in her “sense making” school of thought. While other typologies do exist, I believe the Dervin definitions fit my particular experience best because the categories are notContinue reading ““Taking a Drink from a Fire Hydrant”: How Do We Find Information? (Part 2 of 4)”

“Taking a Drink from a Fire Hydrant”: How Do We Find Information? (Part 1 of 4)

I cannot imagine a time in my life when I will want to stop learning. It’s unfathomable to me that anyone could ever reach such a point. In the so-called “age of information” in which I grew up, it seems more and more unlikely that such a thing could ever happen. We are bombarded constantlyContinue reading ““Taking a Drink from a Fire Hydrant”: How Do We Find Information? (Part 1 of 4)”