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THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER by Sarah Dessen
When I was in NYC a few year ago I discovered that I was out of books to read while I traveled, so I went to a bookstore to remedy the situation. NYC is expensive, and while I'm not cheap, I was on a budget, so when I saw that I could get two Sarah Dessen novels in...
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie
I've been waiting for this book for a long time. I had it on hold, but a lot of other people were faster than me and got to read it first. It was totally worth the wait. I think this should be required reading in all schools. Heck, everyone should read it. It's a...
Vacation?
Well, I finished my manuscript and sent it to my agent last night. Now what? Vacation? I am feeling the urge to cook, so maybe we'll eat really well for a while, which would be a nice change to pasta and pesto at 10pm because I've been writing all day. I might have...
THINK AND GROW RICH…if I must!
Maybe you're familiar with oh...say...pretty much every self help book out there designed to help you do what you love for a living and be both financially and creatively successful, or maybe not. But either way, it is often believed that Napoleon Hill started it all...
The work before the party…
If you've been following my blog, you will know that my life has been an alternating pattern of writing and painting. I write for a while, then I paint some more of the interior of our new house. Well, we've been here six months now and the kitchen and bathroom are...
I’m about to surface again!
Well, I did it. I just sent my critique group my new revision. Now I wait for their brilliance and insight, do another (hopefully not too long) pass through, and send the book off to my agent. Wahoo! And just to add a little icing to the cake, I got an email the other...
RULES and THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS
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 that's why I liked...
The home stretch…
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…
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 case. It wasn't him,...
Burning the midnight oil continued –
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 asleep (ha!...
TYRELL by Coe Booth
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...
PLUS by Veronica Chambers
This is a hilarious book. It looks a bit like light chick lit YA, and I guess in some ways it is light, but it's got some depth too and the character, Bee is just too funny! I read this straight through and really enjoyed it. I don't usually include what a book is...
Burning the midnight oil…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I know writers who keep a pen and notepad by their bed at night in case they wake up with a story idea, or a solution to a problem they're stuck on. I don't do this. The few times I tried it, my brilliant midnight ideas either turned out to be lame, illegible, or...
FROZEN RODEO, PRIVATE PEACEFUL, & STIFF UPPER LIP, JEEVES
First off, I guess I better say that this book had had a name change. My copy says FROZEN RODEO by Catherine Clark, but on her website, it says it is now called BETTER LATTE THAN NEVER (and obviously, it has a new cover!). I know you guys are gonna hate to hear this,...
Lots of new stuff…
Lots of new stuff on Need To Read.
Red Hair Be Gone!
The coolest thing happened yesterday, although I do think that maybe some authors are going to be pretty upset with me. Read about it here.
Red Hair Be Gone! cont.
April Fools!