My four-year-old is teaching my one-year-old how to play hide-and-seek. The younger one hasn’t quite grasped the nuances of the game just yet.
When we walked into the office to look for the hidden toddler, we sang “Is anyone in here?”
Our little one answered from under the desk, “No.”
It’s nice to see my daughters playing together and developing a sisterly bond at [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 29, 2008
Inspiration
I’d like to ask the question that I asked author Kim Harrison in a recent interview:
Where do you find inspiration?
I’ve mentioned in previous posts about the fact that I find inspiration for story ideas from my dreams, or to be more specific, my nightmares. I am also inspired by my travels. Seeing a new place, particularly one that stems from [...]
March 28, 2008
Author Interview: Kim Harrison
Kim Harrison is the creator of the New York Times bestselling series about the Hollows, a seemingly ordinary Cincinnati suburb with one distinguishable difference – It is populated primarily by vampires, witches, weres, pixies, and other supernatural beings. In follow up to my recent review of her latest novel, The Outlaw Demon Wails, Kim Harrison [...]
March 27, 2008
Off to Madison
I am leaving today for Madison, WI to attend my first writers’ conference. Even though I have only completed seven chapters of the novel I am currently writing, and I am not yet ready to sign up for one of the agent pitch sessions offered, I couldn’t resist the invitation from my writer friend Amy, when she asked me to [...]
March 25, 2008
Book Titles
The page proofs for my Trout Valley book arrived from my editor a few days ago. My husband pointed out to my four-year-old daughter that my name is on the front cover because I wrote the book. She was quick to point out the flaw in his statement.
“Her name is spelled M-O-M.”
She asked what the title of [...]
March 24, 2008
Book Review: How NOT To Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
In addition to being a useful how-not-to manual for any aspiring novelist, How NOT To Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide also happens to be a hilarious read. Experienced editors and writers Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman provide tremendously awkward examples of mistakes that are sure to make any editor toss a manuscript submission straight into [...]
March 23, 2008
Candy and ChapStick
Trick-or-Treat!
Oops, wrong holiday… They feel so much alike though with all the goodies and the baskets, and my one-year-old is wearing bunny slippers, a bike helmet, and sunglasses right now, which sort of resembles a costume.
My daughters’ favorite Easter basket goodies are the temporary tattoos (of course) and ChapStick. They both stopped when they got to the lip balm, insisted on opening [...]
March 22, 2008
Book Review: Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett
A reprint paperback of Terry Pratchett’s Johnny and the Bomb, from the Johnny Maxwell series, will be available in April. This is a story about a group of accidental time-travelling teenagers “lost in the trousers of time.” They are unexpectedly transported back to the year 1941, with the knowledge that the small town in which they live was bombed [...]
March 21, 2008
Where is Spring?
Yesterday was officially the first day of Spring. Gazing out my office window into the backyard, all I have seen since this morning has been snow. Five to eight inches is in the forecast for today. How can this be?
I have plans tonight to see humorist Sarah Vowell – NY Times guest columnist, contributor to public radio’s This American Life, author of [...]
March 21, 2008
Blog Tag
Fellow blogger Liz Hum of My Other Car is a TARDIS tagged me for this entertaining blog game that features a retrospective of personal posts. Here are the rules:
Go back through your archives and post the links to five of your favorite blog posts.
Link one must be about family: Creating Art
Link two must be about friends: Things I Like: Sassy [...]
