RULES and THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS

by | Apr 8, 2008 | Need to Read

RULES by Cynthia Lord – I can’t remember who mentioned this book on their blog, but boy am I glad they did! As you know, I’m not always a big Middle Grade fan, but this one rocks! My husband always calls me a rule follower, so he probably thinks...

The home stretch…

by | Apr 8, 2008 | Daily Writings

I’m in the home stretch of this revision so if I disappear for a week or so, make sure you come back again! I will, I promise. And I’ll be updating Need To Read too, so stop by there. Happy writing (or whatever it is you do that makes you happy)!

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...