1. If your cover letter is bizarre/arrogant/horrifyingly uninformed, you’re sabotaging yourself. I make a special point to read the submissions blind because too many writers shoot themselves in the foot. (More on that in a later post.) 2. Well, whaddya know, this business really is subjective! And we thought that was just a brush-off line. It’s true, though. Perhaps I … Read More
Why Am I Thinking Of The Rolling Stones?
At a time when my heart is breaking? We were calling the triplets Winkin, Blinken, and Nod, but discovered today that Nod passed away about two weeks ago. It’s funny how you can become so attached to somebody that you haven’t met, but that’s the way of it. While I mourn for the child that we almost had, we’re still … Read More
And Another Surprise
This one breaks my heart. Apparently they picked up two heartbeats on the ultrasound, but never heard the third. Whether or not the baby has passed on or was merely hiding…well, I don’t know. I won’t know until the 19th. It’s killing me a little. It’s funny how we’ve known about the three babes for about 24 hours, but I’m … Read More
SURPRISE!!
I wrote a post a few weeks ago celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary. I’d been feeling a bit unwell lately, so imagine my darling husband’s surprise when, after our anniversary dinner, I shouted “SURPRISE!” and announced that I’d just discovered that we were having our third child. How wonderful! How unexpected! A surprise indeed. Then we were robbed ten days later. … Read More
SHOES HAIR NAILS by Deborah Batterman
SHOES HAIR NAILS by Deborah Batterman is an evocative short story collection laced with truth and a touch of sorrow. Batterman’s book is an intricately woven work of stunning depth. It’s full of diverse characters with universal challenges, and the “it is what it is” way that they accept their realities is honest and true to life. I found myself … Read More
WIP Wednesday: I Am A Bear
The Williams Project is going well. I spent some time this week wandering around the empty wasteland of personal memoirs, looking around to see what does and doesn’t appeal to me. I’m struggling a bit with the layout of the Project. I’m a very free-spirited writer. I outline extremely loosely if at all. (In fact, somebody just called my outlining technique … Read More
Welcome To The Apocalypse. Enjoy Your Stay Here.
It is snowing in Las Vegas. Real, stick-t0-the-ground, the-kids-are-baffled snow. It’s beautiful and we spent the morning playing in it before Real Life called. Now I know that this isn’t the Snowpocalypse that most of us are used to (I practically learned how to shovel the driveways before I could walk) but it’s pretty unusual here. I take this as … Read More
In Which I Discover That We’ve Been Robbed
We packed up the car and headed to my parent’s house for the holidays. We had everything that was really important with us: the family, my laptop, the kids’ medicine. It was a good thing, too, because our home was broken into on Christmas Eve, and we were robbed. Our neighbor, who knew that we were out of town, saw … Read More
A Krampus Christmas
Trust Battle Bunny, aka Ryan Bridger from my writer’s group, to introduce me to the most horrifying holiday myth that I have ever heard of. Read his super cool, ultra-violent Christmas story, “A Krampus Christmas” and then curl up on your side and weep. You’ll never look at Santa the same way again.
There Is No Hope For Me.
Even when I try to be good and kick violence and evil in the face, the Universe is out to thwart me. It’s hopeless.