October 2007

I thought this was the perfect time to mention that my writer friend, Anne Frasier, whose sequel to Pale Immortal–GARDEN OF DARKNESS–is hitting stores in December, has a cool interview up at the blog, In For Questioning. What is In For Questioning, you might ask? In For Qu

Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Awesome Action Heroes Of course I had to share this list! Now what does that say about me that I’ve seen 17 out of 25 of these flicks?? hehe. The ones in italics are the ones I haven’t seen. Yet. 25. TOSHIRO MIFUNE, SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)24. S

When the school year started, I thought it would be a little bit easier to write. I thought I’d open more time for myself. In a way it has given me about 2 hours on my own a few days a week. On the other hand, I didn’t factor in all the additional commitments and obstacles. I voluntee

Good Monday to you! Starting off the week with a few interesting quotes. I have writing on my agenda and a date with a pumpkin patch. Stephen King“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” Johann Wolfgang von Goe

I have about 100 more double-spaced pages to go on the first draft of IT. Not much if you think about it since I’m about to hit the big event. Then threads will need to start resolving. I’m at the point, though, where the computer screen doesn’t give me a good enough visual and I need

I’m doing my best to move forward on IT. What’s a little tougher for me on this book is the mystery. GG didn’t have a mystery, but my Bombshell did. I have the capability to write a mystery element, I’m just a little rusty at the moment. Here’s something

When writing scenes, it’s easy to forget to embellish the scenery. I’ll be the first to admit writing scenery is not my strength. I try to remember to go through the five senses–describing all the details that the character may see, smell, feel, etc–but what I’ve learned i

I don’t know about you, but with all the book sites getting hype, I’m feeling a little undecided. There are just too many choices! I signed up with Library Thing a while ago. I thought it was super cool to catalog your books on-line, you get a free account for 200 books then you can p

I’ve been hesitant having a book video made for GRAFFITI GIRL. –Some designers are WAY too expensive.–Some readers don’t care for the movies.–And there hadn’t been any designers within my budget that I really enjoyed. But then, I saw a video by M2 Productions and was

I haven’t seen this meme floating around before, and I was tagged by Word Nerd. (Thanks WN!) Total number of booksThe truth is I don’t know how many books I own. Possibly a couple of hundred. When I moved over a year ago, I gave half that to libraries and donation sites. Last book rea