November 3, 2011 If I had three wishes right now from my very own magic genie, I’d wish for a PR specialist. Why? Because there is SOOOO much to do in thinking of self publishing my novel. I spent most of yesterday looking into the various aspects of what I need to be doing to really give this […]

November 2, 2011 I think I’m finally ready. I think I’m ready to take the plunge and self publish my first novel. With the completion of my second novel and the editing process in full swing, I’ve decided it’s high time I do something about the first one sitting on my shelf in it’s three ring binder.

September 15, 2011 So here we are again…many months since my last post and back again. Only this time, I’m alone. All the kids are in school this year – well, at least on Tuesdays and Thursdays – so my mind is running rampant with plot ideas and character descriptions. I’m finally back to my

March 23, 2011 Oh boy. I spent some time on urbandictionary.com doing some “research” today. Researching for a hip, super cool book you ask? No such luck. No, I was researching the current lingo going around my son’s sixth grade class. We had an interesting conversation in the car yesterday. It went something like this: usually private

January 28, 2011 So the New Year has come and is really not so “new” anymore, yet this is my first post. Ugh. Apologies. Sorry. Ooops…etc., etc… My excuse? This is my busy season. “An accountant,” you assume. No – I am a 4th grade Girl Scout leader and (drum roll please)… IT’S COOKIE TIME!!! Now all

December 16, 2010 Last year I made a New Years resolution to read more. I already read quite a bit…every night in bed, sitting in the car waiting for the kids to be done practices… Sometimes I’ve even been known to read while making dinner if it is a really good book. But I wanted

September 1, 2010 Yippee, Hooray, Yee-haw! Yes, the kids are back in school! (Well, two out of three anyway…but at least I’m no longer out numbered…) It’s such a relief to be done with all the running around that goes with the approaching school year. School supply shopping must be the most universally despised outing by

July 21, 2010 So I was cruising through all the fabulous blogs I follow and came upon a post at The Writing Room (by Catherine A. Winn) that has had me thinking for days. Her post Working on WIP or Goofing Off truly struck a cord with me – her essential idea being that so long as

July 19, 2010 I read an article lately that suggested that in a few short years, the use of textbooks in classrooms will be a thing of the past. Instead, each child will have their own laptop computer with the textbooks downloaded. My first thought was how fabulous it would be not to have to

July 9, 2010 I’ve decided that the quickest way to get your book published is to first be famous – then you can write any old thing and they’ll slap your photo on the cover and print it. Heck, you’ll even get a tour of Good Morning America and The Today show to boot! Since