Dear Reader(s), Good news, y’all. The fires are out, the relatives are safely back at home (with some water issues, but, still, doable), and Yours Truly is a Duchess. I won the title in the Smart Bitches “Guess That Lonely Heart” contest, but I feel like a bit of a…
No posts this week. We’ve a house full of relatives displaced by the San Diego fires. So far, their houses are safe, but very smoky and without utilities. Thousands of people weren’t so lucky. The Red Cross has a special designation set up on their web pages for those want…
I ought to get some blogging mileage out of the eBooks I’ve read. But, I’m lazy, and I procrastinate. Sometimes it just so difficult to put my completely arbitrary and fickle opinions in print. So here’s part 1 of a round up of eBooks I’ve read lately–Short and Sweet. Or,…
I finally finished the WIP I’ve been working on for the past 3.5 weeks. Instead of running 12,000-15,000 words, Ember came in at over 31,000. That’s a big baby. Ember Charm is a curse. Love is a fire. And this story? It’s is no fairytale. 31,304 / 15,000(208.7%) Time to…
If you were wondering which fairytale I ripped off and ripped up to write Ember, this excerpt should answer your question.____________________________ I was not surprised when, scarcely nine months after my mother’s death, my father returned from one of his buying trips with a cartload of second-rate silks and a…
If you haven’t signed up for the 70 Days of Sweat challenge, go have a look. It’s kinda like NaNoWriMo, except, not a month, not so intense, and more focussed on quality output. OK, so it’s not like NaNo. And that’s not a bad thing. Last time around, I made…
When I try to recall the Romance novels I’ve read from the eighties they blur into this weird image of a hydra-headed chimera of asshole billionaires, white savages and pirates–all somehow depicted by Fabio–forcibly seducing a veritable secretarial pool full of foot-stamping, head-tossing, chin-lifting virginal heroines. And, I seem to…
Updating my WIP list, both here (right) and on my website, I noticed something: I have 9 viable stories on the ol’ hard drive, of which I have finished exactly 2 –two! dos! deux! ni!. I’ve had good luck with both of my finished stories. Like a Thief in the…
Today was kinda tough. I was feeling kinda run down with the job. The writing is wrapping up to the point where I’m pretty sick of the story, but it still needs some polishing. And then Google Reader (my preciousss) serves me up the following link courtesy of editor Laurie…
Can’t talk. Writing. In the mean time, please enjoy this photo of the palm tree in our back yard. It used to be rather scary and disreputable-looking. There were likely all manner of yucky little creatures living in its beard of dead fronds. But we got it trimmed–a palm tree…
