Yesterday was the Christmas party at Destruction’s school and as room mom I wanted to come up with a way for the kids to remember how much they love some of the things they already have, rather than only what they might get for Christmas. We did a “My Favorite Thing” Show-n-Tell. If the kids forgot to bring something from home, I had them pick something out in the classroom that they loved to play with or do at school. [...]

We’ve almost all been to one, but last night was Chaos’ first band concert. A new Christmas memory for us. :)
Considering that they’ve only been playing their instruments for 3 months and there have only been 3 practices where everyone is playing together, they did very well. In fact, I only heard a couple of squeaks from somewhere in the back. I look forward to more concerts and seeing the future growth of these budding musicians.
Tell me, what new [...]

Did we all survive the party? When I started thinking about the men that have been here to keep things under control, as if they had a chance, and the guests we’ve had, and the excerpts they’ve shared, and the stories that have been told, and the really really scary editor that we had here… Well, I was half afraid to come in here this morning. I am very proud of you guys for mostly cleaning up after yourselves. [...]

I am loving all the different guests that have been here this month, and it’s been great to see everywhere commenting and chatting and celebrating the release of all these books. I hope you’ll keep coming back to visit, because I’m going to start having more authors take over the blog in celebration of their releases.
If you haven’t already, go to www.Samhellion.com and download my Free read. In the meantime, in addition to several other projects, I’m quickly working [...]

Welcome Lauren Dane to the Party Room!! Her book Trinity is out and awesome things are being said about it. Chat it up, because in addition to being entered in the drawing for tomorrow’s prizes, Lauren is doing a giveaway of Cascadia Wolves: Standoff (winner’s choice of format – paper or digital)! And be sure to check out Lauren’s website www.LaurenDane.com.
In 2005 there was a call at a publisher I wrote for, asking for proposals for an anthology of [...]