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A tale of an unlikely friendship, a friendship that puts everybody’s reputation at stake… Or something.  Finally I have the “all clear” to announce this: I’m a member of the Shock Totem staff.  Rock on!  I submitted a story back to them in September, and they accepted it in October.  After the acceptance, I began hanging out on the ST forum, pretty … Read More

There’s a reason that I never did WIP Wednesdays: I have about a zillion works in progress, and I don’t want to face up to that fact.  But you know what?  Huzzah for accountability!  I love to read how other people’s WIPs are going because it’s inspiring.  So buck up, me. The Demon Novel: 16,633 words.  I hope to finish it … Read More

Does this sound like gibberish to you?  So most of us are familiar with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and a lot of us even participate in it.  But there’s an unofficial JulNoWriMo, as well, where we write a 50,000 word novel in the month of July.  And I think I’m going to dive in. I need the deadline.  I … Read More

So my son started four weeks of summer school today. Me:  Yay, yay!  I’ll put him on the bus at 6:45 am and then I can write until 11:00!  My daughter will just play quietly at my feet! Yeah, right.  For one thing, I am not a rise and shine type o’ girl.  I’m more rise and snarl.  I write hate … Read More

I love fireworks.  I’m positively mad about them.  The thing that really made chemistry click for me was when we learned how to make the different colors in fireworks.  I was in heaven.  Every year I used to go out into the desert with my friends to watch the fireworks, or climb on the roof of my house.  This year … Read More

So after a brief conversation about The Pirate Movie (Oh my gosh!  Other people have not only heard of it, but have actually watched the thing!) I’ve been happily obsessed.  And I’m also very busy today, so I’ll leave you with the closing musical number of the cheesy 80’s goodness that is The Pirate Movie.  Now I want to slide … Read More

Okay, flash is fun.  It’s succinct and charming, but MAN, it is not going to get me into the HWA!  Luckily the last two pieces that I’ve been working on are longer, although they won’t get me into the HWA, either.  They’re both sad realistic pieces, and I have no idea where that is coming from. Normally I have a … Read More

  So I was having a rather bad day when I zipped on over to Matt Bett’s blog and I read his “Arg, you die now!” post. And it cheered me right the heck up. Yay! Trash talk! Threats of slaughter! An unnamed prize! I smell blood in the water.  I like challenges.  A lot.  The first thing that I did … Read More

Whew!  I have to say that I’m feeling much better today.  I watched Nina like a…I was going to say “rabid hawk”, but I really don’t think that I’ve heard of a rabid bird.  Anyway, she didn’t have another seizure, and the doctors say that everything looks fine, so I’m hoping against hope that it’s a one time thing.  I’m … Read More

Matt Betts and I are having a challenge to see who can qualify as an active member of the HWA first. Why? Because we wanna. And it’s always much more fun to do something like this with somebody…or against somebody. Our contest officially begins today, and I was going to have a huge “Are you ready to rumble AUUUGGGHHHHH!!!!!” thing … Read More