If you can't count on your family to embarrass you, who can you count on?

In the MG that I am working on now (yep, I made a choice to write the MG series), I am dealing with some very irresponsible characters. My husband and I believe in leaving a small footprint. We downsized our house to 900 sf, and if my husband could talk me into it,...

When I was a kid, I had some really good names picked out for my twenty or thirty children that I'd need to use them all. Luckily, I became a writer, so I get to use them now. My main characters often tell me their names, but when it comes to secondary characters, I...

I finished my revision last week. Now I am in the odd position of choosing a new project. I say odd, because I almost always have something that someone wants me to revise (an agent, an interested editor, me, etc.) and now I don't. I do have a manuscript that needs...

  Made a sale today. Not bad, eh? Not a book, but another article to the Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrators. I don't think this one will be as topical as my last one, Red Hair Is Not As Uncommon As You Think, but hopefully it will be helpful. I think...

Bridges are not my favorite things. I don't quite have a phobia about them, but let's just say when the bridge in Minneapolis collapsed last year, I was not reassured about any bridge. Ironically, I was born and raised in Bridgetown (aka Portland, OR). Naturally, I...

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 having it as the first...

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...