September 1st is my birthday, but I’m giving you the present. You can win a e-book copy of Another Time Around. Just send an email to cate@catherinewade.com with the subject line “ATA Giveaway”. The winner will be chosen at random by a highly technical process involving throwing names in a hat. One entry per person, [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 14, 2009
Good Writing – Does it Supersede Genre?
Most readers have their favorite genre, be it romance or mystery or sci fi or…whatever. But I think most of us have crossed the line at some point and found a book we absolutely love in a genre we never read. For example, I read a lot of non-fiction and mystery as a kid, but [...]
August 11, 2009
Recipe of the Week – Pumpkin Muffins
Okay, I’ll be honest here. This is a cheater recipe – totally simple and totally stolen. A friend of mine told me about it, and I’m sure it’s been published somewhere, but it’s like Amish Friendship Bread at this point. It just spreads like wildfire. And the best part? Two ingredients. Seriously.
Ingredients:
1 package cake mix [...]
August 9, 2009
Chapter One
Start where the trouble starts. That’s a simple rule of writing -or, I should say, it sounds simple. The first scene in a book is always the most difficult to bash into shape. You have about a paragraph to get the reader hooked. In fact, most of the time, you have one line, so it [...]
August 5, 2009
Recipe of the Week – Pork Chops and Stuffing
This is a recipe my sister asked for not long ago, and one I’d forgotten about. Used to be one of my stand-bys and my kids loved it, but then as I sought new and different dishes, it fell out of my repertoire. Fair warning, it contains canned soup. The only reason I mention that [...]
August 2, 2009
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Since tomorrow marks my return to the day job for the school year, I thought I’d do a post in homage to all those back-to-school essay assignments of days gone by. We’d had a lot planned for this summer, including a trip to the Omaha Zoo, Cub Scout camping in Minnesota, and a trip to [...]
August 1, 2009
20 Years? No Way!
So tonight, the East High School class of 1989 begins their 20-year high school reunion. I won’t be there. I was planning on it, but then the husband got sick, so all our plans were put on hold, including a trip back to see the old crew.
I went to our 10-year, and had a really [...]
