Cubbies and SISTER SPIDER KNOWS ALL

Well! The Cubs game sucked for the Cubbies, but it was really, really, really cool if you were me. Hearing my husband’s song, having them introduce it and then say it was sent to them by “Joelle Anthony, a big Cubs fan” was sooooooo cool! I am a 25...

Totally off topic but very COOL!

This post is Cubbie Blue because I’ve got cool news! If you get the cable channel WGN and you’re around today, tune in to the Chicago Cubs baseball game (starts at 1:20pm central time) and you will hear my husband’s song! They are going to play his...

Character names

I remember reading a long time ago, when I first started writing, that you should use names for your characters that are either very, very common or made up because if you use an ususual name, and the reader is named that, it takes them out of the book, but if the...

More on Seventeenth Summer

Hello, All.Well, mostly I’ve been writing. I managed to cut 20,000 words from my manuscript and I’m going to meet my workshop deadline a couple of days in advance. Because of writing 6-10 hours per day, I’ve had to curb my reading a bit. I finally...

SEVENTEENTH SUMMER by Maureen Daly

Okay…this is making me crazy!Although I’m still reading manuscripts from my group, I’m also reading a YA (you can’t carry loose manuscripts from bed to the table to the glider to your desk…you just need a book for that). I picked up a...