I had a fun and productive weekend, which is new for me. The two don’t normally play well together.
The fun came with a visit from friend and blogger Ali Flores and her cousin Eli. They came up to get some books signed and while here we did a quick lunch and a trip to the Barnes and Noble I’ll be signing at in 2 weekends. WooHoo!! We chatted and hung out and Ali sneaked a few peaks into some [...]

RWA 2010 was a blast, and I’m still catching up and cleaning off my desk, but I wanted to share the pictures I managed to remember to take. Most of these are of my chapter mates from NTRWA, including Kim, Angi and Heather (part of our critique group The Bloody Pen Sisterhood). Others are of some of my favorite people.

Do you remember the red pens your English teacher used to use? And how small it made you feel to get a paper back with marks all over it? Or at least what we though was all over it?
I’ve been working on a revision project and thought I’d share this with you. While English was one of my favorite subjects in school and I sought out the toughest teacher so I could learn the most (yes, I’m a geek), [...]

I will do anything to accomplish my desire, just don’t ask me to…
It’s not much of a secret that I can write or edit a book fast. It’s something I trained myself to do years ago when I had fewer demands on my time, and if I hadn’t I would be a massive ball of stress feeling constantly like I was on the Titanic without a life boat in sight. Instead I can often see the life boat even [...]

Amid the chaos that was my life the last two weeks I’ve played with some new features that I’ll be doing more of on the blog. There won’t be a set schedule, but each feature will have a specific focus (of sorts.) Today is the first in Laundry Lane. Laundry Lane is where I’ll talk about everything from friends to family life to toe woes of losing wieght (which doesn’t go so well when you eat junk food and stop [...]