I finally found my camera feed cable, so I’m going to upload some pictures this week. First up, the Bar Harbor Book Festival I attended. I only took two pictures (I get distracted and forget to take pictures). But these lovely authors (Judy Phillips, Susan Vaughan, Michelle Libby, Bethany Hegedus, Kekla Magoon) did a fabulous [...]
I spent the holiday cooking, baking, chopping, peeling, cleaning, talking, Wiiing…and watching TV. The Macy’s Day Parade, of course, and a Mythbusters, and some episodes of Modern Family, Lie to Me and The Middle that were clogging up the DVR. Holidays tend to be a bridge from past to present to future for me. I [...]
Truth in advertising. No one believes it exists, and we all get sucked in by it now and again. I set my remote to skip all the home shopping channels, but every so often I’ll deliberately watch one to remind myself what it takes to sell a product — energy, enthusiasm and a good pretense [...]
I am going to try not to over eat. But if I do, I’ll work it off during the family Wii championships. May everyone enjoy the day in the way that suits them best. For me, dh, and ds2, that would be turkey. For ds1? Salmon. Yes. Really. His sister will be so proud. I [...]
I heart Suzanne Collins (despite the fact that her name is similar to my state’s not-so-heartish junior Senator). When I heard the plot of Hunger Games, I had to read it. I loved it. But then I heard that Catching Fire had a cliffhanger ending, so I wasn’t going to read it. Until it jumped [...]
I’m still getting my blog legs, trying to decide how to entertain my diverse audience of writers, readers, and family members looking for things they can use to make fun of me. So when the recent furor over a major publisher deciding to get into the vanity press business, I wondered if I should blog [...]
I downloaded the information from Amazon about self-Kindling (that sounds a little dirty, doesn’t it?). My books will have to be scanned in or re-edited, which is work, but otherwise everything sounds do-able. And yet, I hesitate to pull the trigger on this enterprise, despite how much like easy money Joe Konrath and Lee Goldberg [...]
As it is November, and time for NaNowrimo (National Novel Writing Month), I thought I might talk about the inner conflict between getting something on the page, and getting something beautiful on the page. There are a few lucky writers who do not suffer from this inner conflict. Writers who write fast and love every [...]
So, last week I dreamed I was holding a full plate and my arms were tired and I just wanted to sleep, but I was afraid to let my guard down, for fear something would slip off the plate. Hmmm. Wonder what that means? Today was a catch up day. I met two deadlines, barely. [...]
