Yesterday, August 4th, the Blue Angels flew over Seattle as part of Seafair and being buzzed by the bold blue and yellow F-18s is a highlight of the summer. They make me shiver. They make me cry. I don’t even know why. Maybe it’s just that they do the impossible and I’m moved by the […]
Category: Writing Life
Julie On Jane On Voice
I’m cheating. Tonight I’m copying someone else’s blog and pasting it here because she made me sound very good and very smart. I met the author at the Emerald City writer’s conference last October here in Bellevue when I had the good fortune of joining her for Cherry Adair’s afternoon tea. I hadn’t seen her […]
More on That Hot Read
I stayed up last night until nearly 2 am wolfing through Claiming The Courtesan and then backing up to reread Anna’s gorgeous prose. Her book is so much on my mind this morning and it’s because I haven’t read anything like this in years. Anna’s characters are fantastic–both great and tragic, heroic and broken, proud […]
Back To Unpack
We returned from Europe last night and today is laundry and bill and errand day to try to get on top of things before I leave Tuesday for the RWA National Conference, this year back in Dallas. The trip was fantastic. London’s always brlliant but I confess, I loved Rome best. Venice is exotic but […]
Those Crazy Odd Mom Arcs
Odd Mom Out won’t even hit the store shelves until September 27th but everyone seems to have a copy already! How is it possible for those advanced reading copies (arcs) to have traveled as far, and as fast as they have? Well, I’ll tell you. eBay. Yep, thanks to eBay and half.com and all those […]
BEA
Readers have emailed me to ask about BEA in New York last week, wondering why I haven’t posted a blog about that when I’ve added some photos from the trip. The truth is, I haven’t blogged about BEA because it was so dang cool I can’t really believe all that good will was focused on […]
Not Exactly
I’m tempted to remove my blog from yesterday. The one where I called myself a Hoor. And why would I take it down? Well, a hoor is a bit harsh for my internet activity. I don’t visit adult sites. I don’t send dirty emails. I don’t behave unseemingly. I just like reaching out to and […]
Internet Addict
I know there are recovery groups for everything. I’m looking for help for an internet addiction. The internet makes me manic. I can’t get off email and MySpace. Worse, I believe I’ve become a MySpace whore. Or Hoor if you want to be polite. I never intended on becoming a Hoor of the internet. I […]
A Lot of Words
I’ve got four books on my desk in various stages of production and it’s about three too many. I can write one book while brainstorming another, but I struggle to write if I’m doing revisions on another, copy edits on a third and final page proofs for the fourth. But that’s exactly what’s happening and […]
Another Day, Another Page
It’s Monday April 16th and taxes are done which should make Uncle Sam very happy because I wrote a lot of checks and gave him a lot of money. My kids are also off to school and I’ve my cup of coffee in hand which means its now time to write. I officially start a […]
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