I'm still here, just not blogging much because of the baseball games I am busy revising my book Restoring Harmony. I am on my last day of chopping, dicing, and cutting up the manuscript (had to lose 63 pages!) and tomorrow I get to read it and see what's left. Then...

When I used to fancy myself an actress, I would find myself having to do the occasional audition piece - a one minute monologue. I got tired of digging up new pieces, so one day, I wrote my own. Looking back on it, it's not great writing, but it actually performed...

Early in April, not so very long ago (certainly not as long ago as I was born), a bouncy baby boy was born and he grew up to be a bouncy literary agent! Please join me in singing wishing my extremely nice, very efficient, smart, handsome, fabulous,caramel-loving,...

Okay, I know that my friend Sarah Tradewell is not really my YA book character Molly come to life. But how we met is a pretty cool story. She and her family came up to the island the other day, and the hubby took this pic. And yes, I do think it would've been nice for...

I put a lot of books on hold. You'd think with a shelf full of galleys (or ARCs as I usually call them), I wouldn't even need the library anymore, but the truth is I check out a handful of blogs and people mention books that sound good. Also, authors I like have new...

If you've read about my forthcoming novel, Restoring Harmony, then you know that my main character Molly is a fiddler. My husband is a professional musician (guitar/mandolin/uke/banjo) and so he usually acts as my "expert", but he's only recently started playing...

The post I just wrote is censored. Deleted. Gone. I spent five minutes ranting about a book I read that I really couldn't stand for soooo many reasons and then I decided, do I really need to put this negative energy out into the world? Nah...I mean, you know I'd never...

Even if you're a die-hard fan of Betsy-Tacy, like I am, you've probably never heard the story about Betsy-Tacy, The Author, and The Chicken. It goes like this. One day, there was an Author who loved Betsy-Tacy. She got online to buy some of the books because her...

I picked up a library discard of this book at the Friends of the Library book sale a few months ago and just got around to reading it. I was saving it for when I knew I needed a sure thing and after starting two books, one YA, one adult, and not getting sucked in, I...

Once you have a book out, everyone from strangers to relatives suggest that you should go on Oprah to promote it. In fact, there's even a hilarious video about a guy whose friend calls and suggests it, but I can't find the link anywhere (if you have it, please leave...

I had a good mail day. Got some money refunded (which I knew was coming), but it was a fair amount more than I'd expected. Bonus! And then I went to the biz P.O. Box and there was my new SCBWI bulletin and inside was the article I just sold them in January. Sometimes...

When I was first looking for an agent, well over two years ago, or is it three? Three I think. Anyway, I was reading agent blogs and Rachel Vater was on my list of ones to check daily. One day, she posted an excerpt from a book by her writer, Eileen Cook. I laughed...