by Joelle | Dec 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
November 8, 2006 Recipe: No-Knead Bread (The comments in Red italics are mine) Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery Time: About 1. hours plus 14 to 20 hours’ rising 3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting Sometimes I sub in ½ cup whole wheat...
by Joelle | Dec 28, 2007 | Daily Writings
I haven’t posted recently for a couple of reasons. The first is I love my picture of me and Buckeroo (that’s my deer’s new name as he’s the smallest of the three bucks who visit us, unless you count Nubby, who is still just a baby) and I like...
by Joelle | Dec 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Turns out all those agents, editors, writing teachers, critique partners, articles, books, etc. were right when they said you should let a manuscript sit for a while. And I don’t mean a week, either! Last June I sent my finished manuscript off to my agent...
by Joelle | Dec 20, 2007 | Need to Read
My thoughts…
by Joelle | Dec 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’m using WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL WORKBOOK to help me flesh out some of my characters on a revision I’m working on right now. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this workbook (and the regular book) and credit it with much of the improvements in my writing in the last...
by Joelle | Dec 20, 2007 | Daily Writings
This deer just let me feed him carrots right out of my hand! I know what it feels like to have a deer nibble my fingers. I love our new house!!!!!! Happy Holidays, everyone! P.S. Quite by accident, I figured out how to post these pictures so if you click on them they...
by Joelle | Dec 14, 2007 | Daily Writings, Need to Read
Read ’em all since I last posted. Here is what I think of them..
by Joelle | Dec 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Love is a Many Trousered Thing is the eighth book in the Georgia Nicolson Confessions series by Louise Rennison. Umm…well, it’s basically exactly like the others and is foremost about who should Georgia snog next. And it’s really funny. If...
by Joelle | Dec 10, 2007 | Daily Writings
Sometimes, library books leave something to be desired. I don’t meant the actual story, I mean the book. Unless you are the first reader of a new copy, chances are, someone got hot sauce on page 94 and someone else’s long black hair is tucked in between...
by Joelle | Dec 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
So, last night I was all stretched out on the couch in front of the fire, happily reading Rachel Vail’s, IF WE KISS, when I discovered a new kind of censorship. Apparently, if you don’t like something in a library book, you can just take a felt tip pen and...
by Joelle | Dec 7, 2007 | Need to Read
Okay…not two books you probably see lumped together often, but I enjoyed them both. MISSING YOU is a follow-up, last-book, tie-up-the-endings novel from Meg Cabot in her 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series. Yeah, I LOVED it. She’s really good at those last books in...
by Joelle | Dec 7, 2007 | Daily Writings
Aren’t laurels leaves and how do you rest on them? I’ve actually been resting mostly on the blue chair in front of the fire with Iain Lawrence’s very interesting and heartfelt book, Gemini Summer. Well, that’s not all I’ve been doing. I...
by Joelle | Dec 1, 2007 | Daily Writings
See my fabulous husband perform with his band, The Ragtops, at the world famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN. Mr. Cinnamon The Very Last Leaf This is a partial and its mis-labled “Salad Days”, but is worth watching anyway. Call Me Up April’s Got...
by Joelle | Nov 30, 2007 | Daily Writings
And congratulations to Governor General’s Award winner, Iain Lawrence, for his young adult book GEMINI SUMMER. It’s in my pile to read.
by Joelle | Nov 30, 2007 | Need to Read
Didn’t just read ’em, I devoured them – 3 in 3 days. And the good news is there’s a new one coming out this month! For those of you who care, #s 3& 4 have a little bit more gruesomeness than I usually like, but are very exciting...
by Joelle | Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Just about the time I moved to the South to live with my husband (boyfriend at the time), he got new next door neighbors. We rarely saw the woman who lived there, but the man was out in his yard from daybreak to sunset. His lawn was meticulous (although later he would...
by Joelle | Nov 28, 2007 | Daily Writings
I think a running theme in books is often mistaken first impressions. Especially in romance or chick lit or…well, anything. I mean, what was PRIDE AND PREJUDICE about if not mistaken impressions? continued…
by Joelle | Nov 26, 2007 | Need to Read
The only bad thing about this book is I’m done reading it and I wish I had three hundred more pages to read. This is an amazing book, full of hilarious but very authentic characters, vivid detail and amazing writing. I finished it earlier today and while I was...
by Joelle | Nov 24, 2007 | Daily Writings
It’s funny how when you decide to write something, people, incidents, news stories, and things you hear all seem to have to do with whatever you are planning to write. Maybe you just notice them or something…I don’t know. As you know, I just finished...
by Joelle | Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Except, someone is going there! Just last week I got an email from someone I was friends with from fifth to ninth grade, primarily in seventh and eighth grade. Her emails have been full of “Remember the time…?” and now suddenly the floodgates have...
by Joelle | Nov 24, 2007 | Need to Read
I believe this is Lawrence’s first book, but he has had many published since it came out, including two sequels. He was recently nominated for The Governor General’s Award in Canada for his latest offering, Gemini Summer. Because Lawrence and I live in...
by Joelle | Nov 18, 2007 | Daily Writings
Before we met, my husband bought an enormous blue velvet chair. His idea was to put it in a room with a lamp and some books and then he would spend many nights luxuriously reading in it by the fire. Unlike other people who buy furniture…okay women because they...
by Joelle | Nov 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
I really enjoyed this book, but I did want to comment on the fact that I bought it as a remainder. One time, in the early days, I bought a book at a library book sale and the writer was on one of my list serves. I mentioned it on the list and was admonished by her...
by Joelle | Nov 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
It is a very sweet book, published in 1965, and a Newbery Honor Book. I had it in my pile of books to read before I moved, but it ended up being the “on the road book”. Every night in the hotel, my husband would gently remove it from my hands after...
by Joelle | Nov 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Anyway, this is a seriously funny book with a bit of a twist to it. The main character has no magical powers of her own, but both her younger sister and her mother are witches. She’s very engaging and likable and except for one annoying thing, I really liked...
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