It Snows! I Rally! All Is Well With The World!

Well.  Well well well.  It snowed in Las Vegas, and I went Christmas shopping with my good friend, and this evening is set aside for baking holiday goodies.  But before that, I am finishing the writing portion of RunStarGirl.  You heard me. Once I decided that I needed to add a little more meat to the story, my brain exploded, … Read More

Enthusiasm Ebbs and Flows

I haven’t updated lately because there isn’t much to say.  I received three rejections this week, and what fun is that to report on?  In fact, I was a little bummed, but then my friend said that he’d received three rejections, too, and two of them were from the same place as mine.  I don’t know why that cheered me … Read More

The Boy Who Hangs The Stars

So!  The first thing I have to say is that I feel good about my reading on Sunday.  No Bambi in the headlights moments, no stumbling over my words.  I also joined a voice group because A) wouldn’t doing voice-overs just be so much fun?! and B) it will help me with my reading.  My diction has become so sloppy … Read More

A Personal Apocalypse

Yay, it’s snowing!  I find this to be an utterly charming little effect that WordPress added.  Snow reminds me of growing up, and it isn’t Christmas without it, and of course Vegas doesn’t get much snow.  So this makes me happy. We did The Great Santa Run today, and it was a success for us.  The kids were happy and … Read More

It’s like…

being a little girl who got into the cookie jar again. So something magical happened today.  It was a culmination of a lot of things, really.  A lot of work and some dreaming, but mostly it comes from pinning my new writer friend/mentory thingy down and demanding that he tell me everything that he knows about writing, marketing, and publishing.  … Read More

Just Plugging Away

I have hit a writing wall.  Perhaps it’s distraction (the holidays, tra la la!) or my kids (my daughter is taking her first steps) or perhaps NaNo completely tapped me out.  I’m trying to think of this as a gentle quiet time where my mind can take a breath, but it is still frustrating.  I want to be writing.  I … Read More

The Bragging Post

What’s that, you say?  There was a submission contest and I WON?  I WON?  I beat Iseult hands down and WON?! *Mercedes sings and dances around, very badly There was a contest, and I won it, uh. yeah, I won it, uh, woo woo   All right.  That’s about all of the bragging that I can stand.  Thank you. Iseult, … Read More

I’m A Winner!

NaNoWriMo, WON for the third time in a row! Submissions Contest with Iseult Murphy, WON by just a hair! “I’m Keeping It Light” SOLD to Fifty Two Stitches! And Christmas presents almost completely bought.  Rock on, I say! Rock on.

I’ll Go Down Swinging

Did I bite off more than I can chew?  Holiday festivities, Black Friday sales, 10,000 more words by Saturday night and a submissions contest?  Maaaaaaybe.  But maybe not.  Know this about me: if I go down, I’ll go down swinging. Suffering on the writing front.  Switching from the novella to something different really threw a wrench in the works and … Read More

Competition with Strangers

Iseult Murphy and I are in a competition: who will submit ten things first?  Well, maybe she will because I’m out of commission for Thanksgiving tomorrow, but I have that competitor’s spirit.  Winner gets bragging rights. Go see her at http://www.iseultmurphy.com.  Go on…write her lots of email so that she’ll spend precious time answering them, thus assuring my victory!