Red Hair Be Gone continued…

by | Apr 6, 2008 | Uncategorized

I was working (not watching the Cubbies lose), when the phone rang. Usually, I ignore the phone when I’m working, but I saw on the caller ID that it was NYC and since I don’t have my agent’s number memorized, I thought I better answer it just in...

Burning the midnight oil continued –

by | Apr 6, 2008 | Uncategorized

One of the best time for me to work out plot problems is as I’m drifting off to sleep, or in the middle of the night, after I’ve gotten up to go to the bathroom. Unlike normal people who stumble out of bed, go pee, stumble back to bed and are instantly...

TYRELL by Coe Booth

by | Apr 6, 2008 | Need to Read

This is a pretty amazing book. It is set in The Bronx, and I was thinking to myself after I finished it how I live in an entirely different world. Then I went out to the kitchen to get some water and two deer bounded through my front yard. Yep. A tad different than...

PLUS by Veronica Chambers

by | Apr 4, 2008 | Need to Read

This is a hilarious book. It looks a bit like light chick lit YA, and I guess in some ways it is light, but it’s got some depth too and the character, Bee is just too funny! I read this straight through and really enjoyed it. I don’t usually include what a...

Burning the midnight oil…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

by | Apr 4, 2008 | Daily Writings

I know writers who keep a pen and notepad by their bed at night in case they wake up with a story idea, or a solution to a problem they’re stuck on. I don’t do this. The few times I tried it, my brilliant midnight ideas either turned out to be lame,...