It’s Official - I’ve Gone Insane

Beating My Own Deadline

Well, I did it. A full 24 hours before I set a deadline to do it, the first three chapters and a synopsis of MURDER IN F MINOR are going in the mail.
I am so taking the rest of the week off. Well, maybe. After all, gotta write the rest of the thing for NaNo!

Trying to Sell an Unfinished Novel

So New Jersey went well for me, with not a single but a DOUBLE partial request from a lovely editor lady. A young lovely editor lady, but we won’t get into my whole aging paranoia. What I’m more concerned about right now is my unfinished book paranoia.
Since I started writing seriously about three or four [...]

In the Interest of Full Disclosure…

There was a conversation started on a blog I frequent about age differences between romantic pairs. The conversation, I think, was actually started with the idea that an adult partner with a partner under 18 (legal or not, depending on what part of the world you’re in) is icky. It rapidly turned into a conversation [...]

Questioning the Dream: AKA What the HELL Am I Thinking?

So I want to be a writer. Maybe. A couple of years ago, I couldn’t think about anything else. I was going to write a brilliant book — or at least brilliant enough to get a contract — and become a real, professional writer. Then life got in the way for awhile and I was [...]

New Template Love

Okay, so I was bored with the cutsie flowers. Actually, I tend to get bored with templates a lot. But then I saw this, and realized it looked just like my desk. Tons of old books stacked one on top of the other. So I love the new template. Wish I could use it on [...]

Things That Make Your Heart Go “Ugh.”

Today was a pretty typical day around here. Went to work, got annoyed by people, the standard fare. Got the kids from school, went home and covered the homework thing, then got started cooking.
My youngest tends to hang out with me while I cook a good bit. My little cheffer, as he calls it. So [...]

Stalking Jessica Faust

No, I’m not really stalking an agent. Although, I kinda felt like I was by Saturday night. She has a partial of mine and asked me to say hi in NJ, so of course I was looking for her.
Don’t ask how many “lovely, petite redhead”s I asked if they were Jessica Faust. Note to [...]

Jersey Girl

Hi from Newark. Got here in one piece dispite sitting on the tarmac in Minniapolis/St. Paul for an hour due to heavy traffic in the New York area. And then we circled Pennsyvania for a half hour later, so I was on a plane for four hours on what was suppsed to be a two-hour [...]