I can’t speak for other writers on this one (in fact, I don’t think I can ever speak for other writers) but especially when it comes to this sensitive topic, I will say I’m speaking about my own writing (but I don’t think I’m alone.) Every book I write has a Black Moment. But I’m […]
Category: Writing Life
Easy Writing
Easy writing doesn’t happen often for me anymore. In the ‘old’ days, back before I published, back before I’d been rejected for 15 years on 12 different manuscripts, writing was easy. I sat down, I wrote, and wrote, and wrote. The words flowed, the characters talked, (and talked and talked) and my books ended with […]
Conference
Conference is crazy. It always is. Doesn’t matter where it�s held, or who the keynote speakers are, conference is conference which means two thousand writers, editors, agents and industry exes are trying to accomplish business. What kind of business? Well, lots of it is meet and greet–shaking hands, kissing cheeks, smiling broadly, nodding politely. Some […]
Ready for Reno
I’m all packed and heading to the airport to fly to Reno in the next hour for RWA’s annual conference. Last year’s conference was Dallas, the year before that it was NYC, the year before Denver. It’s exciting going somewhere different for each conference and my conferences have gotten busier and busier with agent, editor […]
Words
Writers, write. But I’m not writing a lot right now–although I’ve a book due in just weeks. However, the stories are in my head, not just one story, or two, but many. I’m reading a lot right now, too, magazines, novels, non-fiction books, essays, and thinking. I’m in that odd pre-write phase where I’m always […]
Defending the Craft
I’m back in Fresno, California for a long weekend and am traveling with Teresa Medeiros’ ‘Yours Until Dawn’ and really enjoying it, but then as everyone here probably knows, I love wounded alpha heroes. If a powerful alpha is great, a powerful wounded alpha is even better. There are authors who write witty, sexy romps, […]
The Random Universe
Every now and then I’m all set to become the serious philosopher, a member of the superior analytical race and then all the little planets collide and I’m thrown off course. It’s like tumbling into a Bill Murray/Owen Wilson film (yes, I know, they did just star in a movie together, but that’s my point) […]
The Big Day
I feel like a bride on her wedding day. Ridiculous, I know, but having overnighted at Emily’s, I woke up to a special breakfast, and a great girl chat about launch parties–and Em’s infamous launch party story for Web Redesign–and I’m looking ahead to my day, trying to decide what to do first and then […]
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