December 2007

I have quite a few threads for INVISIBLE. The index card experiment did NOT work for me. hah! This is the second time when I’ve written the rough draft to create a plot board to make sure all my threads are touched upon and followed through to the end. It’s not pretty. It&

I hope everyone had a great Holiday! I did and now I’m tweaking INVISIBLE, and laying out my story on a board to see if things are matching up and making sense. The house is a mess, holiday chaos everywhere, but I need to get INVISIBLE to my agent right after the New Year, and t

Flash Comments at WishAFriend.com Wishing all my blogging friends a Merry Christmas!! ~Kelly

I took a wonderful day off yesterday from writing for my birthday. It was all about spending my day with my family, there is nothing more that I love better than doing just that. I also watched an awesome movie: Stardust Adventure, magic, witches, pirates, royalty, true love, and a fa

Holiday Crunch, feeling the holiday crunch! As if you couldn’t already tell, blogging is going to be slim pickings as I close in on meeting my deadline. This weekend I took a little visit to Pacific Grove’s Candy Cane Lane, where the neighborhood puts on a fantastic light

On one of my YA loops, we’ve been chatting about meeting a deadline around the holidays. This is my first one. My last deadline was during the summer with my kids home, and I thought that was hard. Writing during the holidays is like being in a glass bubble, watching everyone on the o

Brief Update: Awoke this morning to the first morning frost for us, on cars, grass, and rooftops. It always looks pretty. I am writing furiously on IT. Three weeks to get it to my agent, five to my editor. There is a cyber blog tour floating around: The 12 Days of Chica Lit Blog Tour.

How is your book doing? This is the question I hear every month or so and I wish I could give an answer like, “I got this many sales this month.” Or “It’s going steady!” But I can’t because I have no way to check. There is no update to me until, what I believe will be, a royalty check

I’m moving around this week! Over at Teen Fiction Cafe it’s promo week. I’m giving away a copy of Graffiti Girl. All you have to do is comment with something artsy to be entered. (I know so original!) Then I have my first post up at the new MTV Books blog, where I

It’s Tuesday, December 4th, the official release day for Anne Frasier’s sequel to Pale Immortal, GARDEN OF DARKNESS! I’m telling you, I got chills reading DARKNESS, and I know there are a good portion of you who love to be scared. J.A. Konrath calls Anne’s writ