Archive for January, 2012

Turtle Mom Wedding Whinesday: Finding the Right Words for Wedding Vows

January 25th, 2012

ANNOUNCEMENT: For any Kindle owners who don’t want to miss a second of the Turtle Mom Wedding saga (which began last year with Confessions of a Turtle Mom), you now have the option to subscribe to the About a Wedding blog on Amazon. Unfortunately, you cannot subscribe to blogs with the Kindle app yet, so you non-Kindle folks can Follow [...]

Wedding Sale: The Fairy Tale Bride for 99 cents

January 17th, 2012

I bow to the Karmic weight of the universe. History: The Fairy Tale Bride was listed at 99 cents for a Backlist Ebooks sale just before Christmas, and when the sale was over, I attempted to put the price back to $2.99. Amazon has (typical) kept it at 99 cents and so has B&N (not [...]

Turtle Mom Wedding Whinesday: Reality Sets In

January 11th, 2012

ANNOUNCEMENT: For any Kindle owners who don’t want to miss a second of the Turtle Mom Wedding saga (which began last year with Confessions of a Turtle Mom), you now have the option to subscribe to the About a Wedding blog on Amazon. Unfortunately, you cannot subscribe to blogs with the Kindle app yet, so you [...]

Kickstarter Fail: What Not to Do

January 5th, 2012

So I woke up this morning to the depressing email that our Kickstarter campaign for our dyslexia game Spyzzz did not get funded. Bummer. No money for an artist. No money for an extra programmer. Back to doing it all ourselves in between everything else. Naturally, having very sharp hindsight, I can see several things [...]

Turtle Mom Wedding Whinesday: Transformation is Tough!

January 4th, 2012

On Sunday, January 1, I unveiled my newest goal: to transform from sweats-enthusiast to sweat-enthusiast (i.e. stop sitting around by the woodstove and start working out to get into shape for the August wedding of my one and only daughter… for new readers, you can catch up on the Confessions of a Turtle Mom wedding [...]

#SampleSunday – The Ex-Files: Chapter 17

January 1st, 2012

Happy New Year! Can you believe it? I’m actually putting up a new chapter! I know. I’ve been MIA for most of December. The holidays are like that for me. Too much to do, not enough time. And then comes January 1st. A new year, a new set of resolutions. First one: finish up the [...]