Green Light

by | Jun 17, 2008 | Daily Writings

Yay! My agent loves my revision. And we now have a title too! It only took me three months, yes, three months to come up with it. And it was last night, when I was adding a final chapter to the book (we had cut the epilogue, but my agent thought I needed some of it as...

What I’ve been reading

by | Jun 16, 2008 | Need to Read

Here’s what I’ve been reading. As I mentioned before, I’m letting myself off the hook as far as writing long blog posts about each book, but these are recommendations. Anything I read that I don’t think is that great will not be listed here, so...

The Price of a Good Book

by | Jun 14, 2008 | Daily Writings

One of the most endearing things about my husband is that he refuses to go to bed without me. That means if I’m not ready to go to bed when he is, usually because I’m reading (okay, always because I’m reading), then he gets horizontal on the couch,...

Cowboys and Sherriffs

by | Jun 12, 2008 | Daily Writings

  So I was looking on the internet for some info and while Google did not bring up what I wanted, it did give me a gift I didn’t even know I needed to see. Sometimes Google might not give you what you want, but it gives you what you need…okay, okay, cheesy...

When Cats Get Spoiled – an essay

by | Jun 9, 2008 | Daily Writings

Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I sometimes write essays about my cats or other animals. It’s a writing exercise and a way to blog about them and still sort of link it to writing… So here is today’s installment: When Cats Get...

When Cats Get Spoiled- an essay

by | Jun 9, 2008 | Uncategorized

Looking back through history, it’s easy to see why people kept cats. It wasn’t because they come when you call them, sit in your lap when you need comfort, or eat leftover food like dogs or husbands do. Nope. It was because they caught mice. People kept...

Forty Things I’m Grateful For

by | Jun 6, 2008 | Daily Writings

Today is author Sarah Dessen’s 38th birthday and on her blog she’s listing thirty-eight things she’s grateful for. At first I was kind of bummed that I hadn’t thought to do that on my birthday last April and then I decided, why not do it now?...

Lucky me!

by | Jun 6, 2008 | Uncategorized

Blessings & Gratitude! Forty things I’m grateful for: 1. My husband 2. My parents 3. My kitties 4. Applewood smoked cheddar cheese from England being available at my tiny village grocery store 5. My lovely office 6. Deer in the yard 7. Tea with milk (and how...

Elevators

by | Jun 5, 2008 | Daily Writings

It’s quite possible that I’ve gone nuts, but what the heck? Here goes nothing. Those of you who read my blog or are SCBWI members, know that over the last two years, I have studied query writing pretty intensely and when I was querying for agents, I had a...

writing and soup

by | Jun 2, 2008 | Daily Writings

  I’m not going to update for a few days because I’m getting great comments on the post about roles in writing/life (below) so I want to keep it near the top. However, I’m having fun over at my other blog, Sunday Soup.

Roles in life, roles in writing

by | Jun 1, 2008 | Daily Writings

When my husband and I first moved in together, we had each lived alone and were pretty pleased to find out that now there was someone else to do some of the household chores! We sort of felt our way along, dividing up chores figuring it out as we went. For example, I...

Candy

by | May 30, 2008 | Need to Read

Imagine that you had plenty of candy growing up. You had it when you wanted it, but because of its availability, you enjoyed it but didn’t think about it much. Then imagine that you were an adult and you moved to a small town. While you could still have some...

Why I Don’t Buy Books

by | May 29, 2008 | Daily Writings

Yes, I see the irony here. I hope to have a book out someday that lots of people buy, but I rarely buy books myself. Here’s why: Clutter – I really don’t like having stuff around me. I have one bookshelf with the books that would be hard to get if I...

Eat Your Veggies

by | May 28, 2008 | Daily Writings

I generally don’t stray too far from the writing path on this blog. If I want to write about something my cat did, I try to turn it into a humorous essay so it’s a writing exercise. However, I’m going to have to stretch a bit to connect today’s...

Bookworm on a break

by | May 27, 2008 | Daily Writings

For no reason that I have been able to come up with, other than I just don’t feel like it, I have not read a book in five days! This might be the longest I’ve gone in years without reading. I have a stack of both library books and books I bought…and...

My Blog Reader Appreciation Day!

by | May 26, 2008 | Daily Writings

Generally when I’m writing, I think about my book a lot. You know, what happens next, who does my character crush on, what kind of shoes does she wear and how can I get a pair…those kinds of things. But as many of you know, I finished my manuscript five...

One True Love

by | May 22, 2008 | Uncategorized

Recently on agent, Kristin Nelson’s blog, there has been a discussion about what you, as a writer, can learn from best selling books, regardless of what one might call “the quality of the writing”. Now I think Ms. Nelson makes some interesting...

First Friday Five continued

by | May 20, 2008 | Uncategorized

1. I’m not really sure what a Friday Five is, but from all the blogs I’m reading these days, I’m starting to see a pattern. Lots of writers do lists of five random things on Fridays and share with the world. I guess I missed the memo. Better late to...

Sunday Lunch continued

by | May 20, 2008 | Uncategorized

Any of you who have hung out here for a while, or perused the rest of my site, know that my all time favorite books are from the Betsy-Tacy series. Starting when Betsy is in high school, they have a thing called Sunday Lunch. Every Sunday evening (I know? Lunch in the...