June 18, 2009 I am the first to confess that I love writing description. Drive me by a hillside of grazing sheep and maybe a stray butterfly floating on the wind (see, there I go again) and I will describe the heck out of it…for pages…and pages…and then maybe just one more… This is what […]

June 16, 2009 So where have I been lately? Certainly not blogging as much as I’d like and certainly not keeping up my word counts the way I had planned. I’ll come right out with it…I’ve been addicted to the Authonomy website. A few months ago I had posted part of my first novel there hoping for

June 10, 2009 I have a feeling that I’m somewhat archaic in my dislike of e-books. This doesn’t mean I’m not willing to change…given the right techniques of persuasion, of course. You see, my husband is constantly regaling me with great e-books he has seen and down-loaded. He’s constantly telling me (to be supportive, I’ve

June 8, 2009 I’m feeling so happy today. Yup. Just thought I’d share. Maybe it’s the sun shining and the kids getting out of school for the summer – the promise of long days at the beach writing (which as I’ve said before, is my most productive spot…) Maybe it’s reading all the wonderful blogs

June 3, 2009 My son was watching me create my database for agent queries… Son: Mom, how many agents are there in the world? Me : Hundreds. Thousands. (admittedly distracted) Son: That’s great, mom! Me: Great? How’s that great? (Bear in mind, I’m in the throws of reading hundreds…thousands of agent websites…) Son: Because you

June 1, 2009 As you can see, I am reworking my query letter for a second round of agent submissions and am in agony! I’ve done my research and read the guidelines for “the perfect query letter.” But is there really such a thing? Is there really a perfect query? It seems this right-brain letter writing is

May 29, 2009 Okay, the self-publishing controversy is driving me batty. It seems that everyone has an opinion driven by their own motivations. Agents and writing publications warn against self-publication as a taboo that will make you undesirable to “real” publishers, while other frustrated writers hail it as a life-line for the undiscovered members of

May 26, 2009 People do it on the couch. They do it on the beach. They do it on airplanes and trains… It’s a fact. People love to read. They do. They love to curl up on the couch under a warm blanket with a hot cup of tea. They like to lay out with

May 13, 2009 Okay, so I’ve been a little distracted lately. Could be the lovely spring weather. Could be all the fuss around the house about the 20 days left of school. Could be the baby turning one. Could be the cat being sick. It could be a number of things. But it isn’t. I

Is it just me or does writing turn your mind to blubber? Yesterday I went to my children’s school to help out with a project and discovered that I have become a blathering idiot seemingly overnight! Picture it: a group of mom’s standing around chatting (looking all cute in their matching track suits and fresh mani-pedi’s,