I think that, like a favourite movie, it's hard to chose a favourite writer without considering mood, genre, style, etc., but there are two writers who really are mine. They are both British. They are both men. One is alive, one has passed on. Both have written around...

Let this be the year for dreams and joy and peace. Happy 2009 Everyone!  

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest I love this quote because it is good for the new year, but also it is just like any good book. Taking a page out of Janet Reid's book, or blog: Here are...

It's funny how when things get complicated you try and try and try to make them work and yet the path of least resistance is almost always to let things go.* What I had to let go was the idea of keeping the cat out of my office and off my desk. We have lived here for...

If you're going to have cabin fever, this is a very nice place to have it... And okay...the cats aren't stupid. They're not out in the yard. They are here:   P.S. Although I'm writing already, I'll probably keep goofing around with off-topic pics until publishing...

Today I read about sixty pages of an ARC that shall remain nameless. Fifty pages is usually my limit and about the time I started seriously contemplating quitting, I looked down and saw I was on page 50. I finished the chapter anyway and closed the book. Here's the...

I can always tell when I've had enough time off because my fingernails get too long to type (not that they've ever looked this good!). Time to cut them and get back to writing!

Since publishing as we know it is officially shut down for a bit, I thought it might be fun to take a quick break from blogging about writing here and have some fun. Not that writing isn't fun, of course. A few weeks ago, my friend Alix over at Marmite and Tea...

Can you tell I'm on vacation? I'm posting all the time! So normally I post my Fave 15 after the new year just in case I end up reading something good at the last minute, but this year, I know how important it is for books to get an extra push in the holiday sales...

I TOLD you I had good taste! Meg Cabot just listed Eileen Cook's new book on her best books to buy for gifts list! Congratulations Eileen! And if any of you didn't see the two or three (or ten) times I've mentioned it here, well, here it is again! What Would Emma...

A few months ago my friend Alix was looking for a new meme and so I made one up for her. That got me thinking, why don't I just make up another one for fun AND at the same time help y'all with any holiday shopping you might still need to do. You are all buying books...

So...publishing pretty much shuts down next week until the new year. I am starting my break a little early...just reading, cooking, enjoying the SNOW! Believe it or not, even though we live in Canada, we live in one of the mildest climates in the whole country and...

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