I’m taking another quick break from wrapping up Odd Mom Out. I’ve been writing nine to eleven hours a day and the computer screen’s getting blurry and my fingers are numb from typing so hard and fast. On Friday I did a call in to a book club which won copies of Flirting with Forty […]
Category: Writing Life
Sound Relations
As an author I have days where I can’t even figure out how to yank a plot around to save a book, much less write and send out press releases for an upcoming book tour, follow up with the bookstore, send out arcs for reviews, do online promo, buy and put together contest prizes, send […]
Ahem
It has been brought to my attention–thus the ahem–that I haven’t updated my JaneBlog in quite a few days. Concern was expressed. A new blog was requested. I am fulfilling request although, ahem, I’ve nothing to say that’s funny. There is painfully ironic. There is ridiculously depressing. There is poignantly touching. And I don’t know […]
Title Me & Freebie Thingies
I need help–which I will reward with a special treat–and I need to give away a trip for two to Hawaii, so that’s what I’m doing here. Asking for suggestions, and then reminding you to enter my Hawaii sweepstakes on my website. First up, my September 2007 release from 5 Spot is being retitled from […]
Crap Artists
First of all, you’ll want to read this most excellent scathing essay (follow link below) http://www.weeklydig.com/arts/articles/chick_lit_is_ and then report back here for my simplistic response. And in the event you don’t want to read a very negative piece on chick lit, and how it’s destroying what is left of America, well, bear with me while […]
Laying It All Out There
I just finished giving my first talk here at the Romance Writers of Australia’s conference on the Gold Coast and I had lots of lovely people tell me afterwards I did a great job, and how much they appreciate me sharing so much of my own life, and maybe it’s not what I should do, […]
Homecoming
Until this week I hadn’t written consistently, or very much, in a long time. I hadn’t done the real writing that connects me back inside my self, the writing that cements soul to skin. Instead I’ve been doing marketing things, promo things, the things I’d rather have a publicist do but there are few publicists […]
A Perfect Day in Atlanta
Let me tell you about my favorite day in Atlanta last week during the RWA conference. Esther Levine has been a media escort for twenty years and she knows the book business, particularly in Atlanta where she’s escorted many of the world’s most famous authors from airport to media appearance to book event. And as […]
The Logic of Illogic
It took Ester Levine my media escort in Atlanta to make me see the light. I am not going to have any control in this book industry. And not only will I not ever have any control, I can not make any predictions although it’s entirely within my right to set some goals. Personal goals. […]
Dishing with the Divas
I’ve just returned with my boys from Reno where we went for a day and a half to see my mom and catch up with my brother Thom, his wife Lee, and their two little girls. Thom lives in North Carolina and doesn’t get to the West Coast very often and my boys were dying […]
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