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Category Archives: Writing Life

Cowboy Country

I’m slightly mad at the moment, the kind of mad that requires straight jackets, as I juggle mom stuff, the upcoming book tour, and meeting my Sunday deadline for the Harlequin Presents I’m writing.
There honestly aren’t enough hours in the day.  Compounding the craziness is the fact that a week from tomorrow I leave for [...]

RWA 2010

Back in Honolulu after 6 days in Orlando for the RWA national conference.  I had an amazing week–its such an intense, wonderful, complex, mind numbing, exciting, overwhelming experience.  You see friends, you meet readers, you talk to your editors and publicists and agent and meet new industry executives.  There are book signings and lunches and [...]

Brothers

Mac is beyond delighted having his two big brothers here in Hawaii with him.  He loves his brothers and can’t keep away from them.  The good thing is that the two bulldogs now have a reprieve.  The bad thing is the brothers are Mac’s favorite activity.

Fortunately, the boys had a great day on the beach [...]

Making a Scene

I tore apart chapter 3 on my new Harlequin Presents manuscript yesterday after not writing for a week due to guests and life and a quick trip to Seattle for a bookclub visit and lunch with my son Jake on his 15th birthday.  I thought chapter 3 was great until I printed it out and [...]

Surfing Saturday

This is going to be a super short post as I’m getting ready to head to the beach with my friend Anne who is going to take a surf lesson from Ty. I’m going, too, and taking out a big soft top as it’s been two years since I last surfed and my confidence is [...]

Mac Makes Friends

It’s the 4th of July weekend and I’m finishing my chapter 2 today of my new Harlequin, an intense ’secret baby’ story set in Sicily.  I’ve spent the past week working on chapter 2, tearing it apart, putting it back together, editing, tweaking, and just couldn’t figure out what was wrong until I realized that the stakes [...]