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NaNoWhateverMo
Last week’s whiny and meandering post had a lot to do with a writing funk I’ve been in. There’s so much I want to do and so little time, blah blah blah, and I found myself paralyzed. This week,...
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Pianissimo
Last weekend, Homes and my father-in-law drove to a friend’s house in Mendocino and came back with a piano. But wait, there’s more. We already have a piano. The old piano is awesome in character and...
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Dabbling
Last week’s post on piano-playing and success is still swirling around in my brain. How many hobbies have I had? Piano Jewelry-making Tennis Rock-climbing Painting Fortune-telling (I was nine. My...
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Colonel Shifty’s Handy Dandy Dictionary of Publishing Terms for the Lucky...
Hi, Colonel Shifty here. It recently came to my attention that while writers have a lot of support on the webternetz, the lucky souls who love and support writers are often left in the dark. What...
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Deck the Halls with Easter Bunnies
Breaking News: THE EASTER BOX IS FINALLY BACK IN THE ATTIC. I’m not a big decorator for the holidays, for two reasons: 1) I’m lazy, and 2) We have too much stuff. Here’s how our decoration cycle for...
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These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
Two Fridays left in December, and I’ll be wrestling kids into naptime spending time with family, so I won’t post anything until January. However, I wouldn’t want to leave you without cool blogs to...
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2013 The Year In Review (with highlights from 2012)
Yes, I am writing this year in review A YEAR EARLY. The way I like looking at goals is as if they are already accomplished, because this helps train my brain to expect them to happen, to expect me to...
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Friday Two, the Whoops It’s Friday Edition
I was actually working on a new novel when I remembered it is Friday, and I want to get back to that, so quickly: 1) Bourbon Penn published my short story, “Child,” which can be found here. (There’s...
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On the Reading Horizon
Sort of unwittingly, I’ve accumulated a small mountain of books to read. In no particular order. My brain doesn’t work orderly these days anyway. Keeping the Castle, by Patrice Kindl. For everyone out...
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Friday Five, the Whatever Edition
1. I have read oodles of good books lately, some of which were described in my last post. And there are more on the horizon! If I ever am not holding a book, little Maverick probably won’t recognize...
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5 Reasons Why Writers Shouldn’t Drive
Woo! Back from my Social Media Blackout. It was very refreshing. While I’m happy to be back and check in with people, I’m coming away from this with a definite desire to set more limits on my social...
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Home Library Challenge
How many times have you looked at the books on your shelf and thought, I should really stop buying books until I read the ones I have? If you’re like me, you think this all the time. I’ve expanded it...
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Out & About Without the Baby
When you’re out and about WITH the baby, strangers smile at you. Or, rather, they smile at your baby, and you smile back because otherwise it’s just kind of awkward. It’s not like the baby regularly...
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The Social Media Existential Balancing Angst of Flailing and Pondering and...
A few weeks ago, I took a hiatus from social media thingies. It was refreshing. I had more time to do other stuff. Here’s the thing, though – I missed out on stuff, too. Probably a lot of stuff. The...
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18 Calming Things
If you have not yet experienced the calming, peaceful feeling of zen from summoning a calming manatee from a website found at, surprisingly enough, calmingmanatee.com, you should totally try it out. I...
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April is the (Coolest) Month, a Friday Five
1. My writer pal Stacey Heather Lee (who I might get to meet in LA! – more on that later) interviewed me on her blog, on what I do when I’m not writing. You can see my favorite boots! My firstest book...
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Four New(ish) Books on Craft and Why You Might Need Them
Confession: I have started, but not finished, these books. They’re scattered around the house (had to round them up for this post) but now that I’m not in the middle of a book for my Best YA Challenge...
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When Kids Are Sick
I’m writing this with Maverick in my arms. At just one year old, he still fits in my lap, and he’s a cuddly little guy. Truth is, part of me is afraid to put him down (but not so afraid that I didn’t...
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8 Random Links
Some of the way-cool places I’ve visited in the past couple of weeks: Clark Little Photography: some awesome photos of Hawaii sent to me by Pat Kahn. Get Genrefied: Verse Novels: an introduction to...
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Ink by Amanda Sun
Holy rats how did it get to be Friday?! It’s been ages since I reviewed a book, but when NetGalley offered a YA by an author I met through Miss Snark’s First Victim, of course I had to snatch it up....
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