January 27, 2012 – 2:48 pm
We’ve made an offer on a house in San Clemente, California and hope to close before the end of February. It’s a great house, a historic home, very close to the beach and the San Clemente pier, and so it looks like we’re definitely heading to California in June once boys finish school. It’s exciting [...]
January 20, 2012 – 1:05 pm
What a week! We’ve had days and days of snow and the kids have absolutely loved being out of school. I haven’t been playing though as my deadline is less than a month away and I’m deep into this new book. I really love this one, its complicated and intense, but also really fun as [...]
January 11, 2012 – 10:02 pm
I am working–writing–and it feels good. Really good. I’m one hundred pages into my story and there are areas I need to tighten and edit, and other areas I need to build up and flesh out, but its exciting to start understanding the story and feeling the characters come alive. I am going to be [...]
December 21, 2011 – 6:01 pm
Right now I don’t feel like a real writer. Maybe its because I haven’t been writing for a number of weeks and I have a big deadline bearing down on me. It will be good to get back to my desk in January. I’ll probably have a lot fewer pep talks with myself when [...]
December 7, 2011 – 8:28 am
Thank you to everyone for your wonderful sister tag suggestions. Loved them. Love you. You are the best of the best. Feel so fortunate to have readers and friends like you. Speaking of reading, I just finished a fantastic Georgette Heyer, Faro’s Daughter, and it was truly wonderful. Faro’s Daughter and Arabella have to be [...]
October 30, 2011 – 6:42 am
Returned home yesterday evening and have just slept for 10 hours and am feeling human again. Its great to be back. We had a fantastic trip but started missing the kids terribly about five days ago. Ten days is a long time to be away from them, especially the two younger ones. Ten days just [...]
