Joy and happiness! I won an Amazon Gift Certificate in Bam’s July Contest. While I am so very happy that people liked my entry, I am beside myself ecstatic to be able to buy books again! Not that I don’t heart the library, but I’m the kind of girl who…
Another month, another entry in Bam’s Monthly Contest. Perhaps one of these days, I’ll win that Amazon gift certificate. In the mean time, I’m having a terrible lot of fun writing. The challenge was to write a scene portraying heat–both meteorological and sexual–without straying into purple prose or naughty words….
Happy 4th of July! Having just vowed to write fewer posts about myself, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the 4th of July, and what America means to me. (Hey, I never claimed to be consistent.) Friends and relatives are often surprised when, in the course of…
Blogger extraordinaire Lynn Viehl has a great post up today on her blog, Paperback Writer. It’s about ways to stay interested in your blog. She says, “Blogging is a labor of writing love…” But here’s the thing: I love to write, but I don’t like to write about me. That’s…
