Ready to go
I heard back from my agent yesterday. He liked my revisions for Libby and now…it’s ready to go out to editors! I am so nervous and so excited at the same time. I was telling my husband last night that... Continue reading →
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Moving forward
It’s back to writing for me. I’ve spent this week focusing on revisions for Libby and Emma and did no writing on Girlfriend at all. But Libby has been completed and sent back to my agent, and Emma is now... Continue reading →
Confessions
Due to recent situations in celebrity gossip that everyone seems to be going crazy over, I feel I should come clean about something. I dropped my cousin when she was a baby. Twice. Thankfully the paparazzi weren’t around to see... Continue reading →
The middle-grades
I’m finally listening to the voice that has been in the back of my head since I first started writing Band Geeks: I think the story will work better as a middle-grade rather than YA. I’m doing other editing right... Continue reading →
News!
Clearly my cat Elmo is so excited about my getting an awesome agent that he’s celebrating with shoes. (He’s been cuddling up to my shoe and pushing it all around the laundry room floor all day. It also happens to... Continue reading →
Keep away from the baby
Babies don’t like me. Really. I have no idea what I did to offend them, but they have all declared war against me. Someone else could be holding a baby and she’ll be all happy and giggly and drooly, but... Continue reading →
Ideas, or “How did you come up with that?”
My fifteen-year-old cousin is running for parliamentarian of her school’s student council. (There are only four weeks left of school, but they do the elections for the next school year at the end of the current school year.) Since I... Continue reading →
Girlfriend soundtrack
I love creating soundtracks for the books I’m writing. It’s a lot of fun picking out the perfect songs to accompany each moment of the story. And yes, I do sometimes have these songs playing while I write to keep... Continue reading →
Such a doll
This is what I would look like if I were a doll. And if I were a fairy. That must be Bandit sitting next to me. He’s the only black and white cat I have. (Made using this.) I’m still... Continue reading →
Other strange things seen in the LC
We live down a two lane highway outside of town, in the southern part of the county. South of the river, the true redneck area of the county. (Our rival high school always liked to joke that we were all... Continue reading →