I’m procrastinating writing again. Well, that’s not entirely true - I did just write a new part of a prologue for Flirting With Destiny, but half of it was written longhand yesterday while I researched things about reading tea leaves. Yes, longhand. Gena Showalter writes her whole book longhand (she’s also […]

and other urban myths - and Betty W. SOLD!!!!
Thanks for your comments, Sidonie (aka cherchez la femme) re my 7/27 blog. Can’t wait till I get my new blog and can actually add the comments people make more easily. It always makes me happy to hear that (okay, yes, that people agree […]

If you’re reading this, please know that your customer service sucks. There is really no better word to desribe it, or the fact that your repair and exchange program is a joke and a fraud. Do you really think that sending me, as a replacement for my in-pristine condition palm, a product that […]

Morning, all. A few new sites of interest today: Unky Moods (they provided the devilish cartoon above) is a great place to find a cartoon that matches your mood. Lots of moods and very descriptive. Also, I discovered some new blogs: Meg Cabot and Sylvia Day. And I think […]

* sob* It was awful. And I lost my original blog page in the disaster, so what you see here is my half-hearted attempts to recreate the sidebar until my new blog, which will be web based, is up and running sometime next week. In the meantime, my old sidebar is still available […]

I’m talking computer viruses here (although the viruses that make us physically sick suck too).
I should’ve heeded Charlotte Dillon’s warning a little more carefully about the new virus threat going around. I should’ve realized that the email from my sister-in-law with the attachment would never have gone into my bulk email if […]

and other alpha males . . .
Well, fictional alpha males, anyway. The real ones certainly do just fine without my help.
This is in response to various posts/blogs/comments I’ve seen lately about writers bemoaning the fact that every time they turn around they’re reading about a SEAL, FBI or CIA agent or some […]

I hate to complain about my muse, because, in all reality, she’s really good to me. In fact, I don’t think I can blame this on her at all. I think it’s my own lack of self-discipline that has me not writing lately. And I either have to accept that the way […]

For Aries: Something is drawing to a close — an extremely surprising one. Better catch a nap after work, because the opportunity to actually rest may not happen again for a while.
Seriously, is this a good thing or not? Drawing to a close doesn’t always signify good - and maybe I’m really […]

Just when I’ve really gotten the hang of using the palm pilot and gotten out of the filofax habit, the screen breaks. I sent it back to Palm and they sent it back to me, supposedly repaired. Nope - still broken. Now I’m waiting for my replacement and writing things down on […]

According to H/S, this is top secret news. According to the nine thousand writer’s loops I belong to, every single writer in the world knows this news already. I won’t say more on the topic, except for the fact that I was happy to hear the line I’m concentrating on writing for is […]

I’m a blog junkie and I can freely admit it. I love knowing what other writers are doing/thinking at any given moment in their lives. I list a few fun ones to the right, but I’m selective because there’s nothing I find more frustrating than checking an author’s blog and finding nothing new […]

That seems to be the very nature of the writing business. Send out a query. Wait. Send out a partial. Wait. Send out a full. Wait. Bite nails. Eat chocolate. Find you are completely unable to write because you actually have a full ms out there […]

and I liked it . . .
I let my new copies of In Style linger for weeks before I put them into recycling without having read them. I throw decorating magazines aside. I will glance through the new Star magazine, because it’s always nice to see a celebrity having a fat day. […]

Only a Fellow Writer Could Possibly Understand
by Sheri Radford (thanks Sherri!!!)
1. The concept of a good rejection letter.
2.The contradictory emotions of envy and elation experienced when a friend gets “the call” from a publisher.
3. How you can still believe a piece of writing is good, even after it’s been rejected 46 times.
4. The truth […]

A great day for me to give thanks for all those men and women who fight for my freedom every single day at their own risk. With guts like that, do you wonder why I chose to write about military heroes and heroines?
Okay - back to my horoscope for Aries: Leave the […]

Here are my random thoughts for the day:
1. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to let Joel Steinberg out of jail? The parole board should take turns living with him as punishment. (They can share with the bleeding hearts who wanted him out too). Really. I […]

Seriously. I seem to have lost all of June, although, juding by the amount of blogging I did last month, I was obviously here and semi-coherent. I’m working hard to polish up one book and finish another. It’s kind of hard to do when the siren song of a new book and […]