It’s Monday again. Not sure how it came around again so fast. Feels like it should be Thursday. But no, Thursday I flew to Tucson to join Shannon Yun’s bookclub which turned out to be a really fun mix of readers and RWA members. Loved the dinner and the company and conversation. Was a wonderful […]
Category: Writing Life
Friends, Mondays & Realities
I just got my 15 year old out the door in a hurry. Mac is talking in his crib and I need to get my 6th grader up in a few minutes but I have a moment to myself and I’m going to grab it. I need to regroup and take a deep breath and […]
He’s Soooo Busy
Thank God Surfer Ty arrives in the morning on a red eye from Honolulu because I need him to wear his son out before his son wears me out. Mac is the busiest boy I’ve ever had and at eighteen months he is clever and curious and persistent and creative, as well as a little […]
My Favorite Writer’s Cottage
The Pacific Northwest Writers Association is a fantastic writers organization headed up the even more wonderful Pam Binder as president. The PNWA puts on one of the best annual writers conferences around and I’m thrilled to be one of their keynote speakers this summer for the August conference. The PNWA is always looking for ways […]
A Dark Sicilian Secret is done!
My latest Harlequin Presents, a story set in Sicily, has been officially accepted and titled. I don’t know when A Dark Sicilian Secret will be scheduled, but fingers crossed it’ll be out this time next year, if not a little sooner. This was such an intense book, and while I loved my premise, it challenged […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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