1.  My Simon & Schuster author page has been updated.  If you want to know which living person I admire most, or how I define perfect happiness, or what my sister, Alyssa, thinks my worst quality is, you can check it all out right here.

2.  Today I’m working on Book 3 of the Stella Batts series (Book 1 - Stella Batts Needs a New Name - will be out ( Read more... )

1. Ugh.  It has been 13 days since I last updated this blog.  Part of the problem is that I’ve been at a loss on what to write.  My life is just not interesting enough:  Here’s Courtney sitting in front of her laptop writing, AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE!  (Yeah, I’m not fooling anyone.)  And then there’s the ( Read more... )

I’m blogging because it’s the time of the day that I’m supposed to be writing, but right now I’m having too much anxiety about my WIP to be in it, so here’s a way for me to still be producing words without being reduced to tears.

I tend to not talk about my works-in-progress; not publicly at least - though if you know me in real-life, chances are I ( Read more... )

If you have a minute (or actually a few minutes, because there are videos involved), please stop by Lauren Myracle's blog for a very special contest.  (And please, if you read the comment section, do not pay any attention to the myriad typos in the comment I pasted -- I was typing quickly.)

So I am back from California -- so strange how quickly the ( Read more... )

My writing schedule has been derailed this weekend, because my grandmother fell and fractured her hip and elbow - of course it is her right elbow, the arm she writes with. She hates being the center of attention, and she doesn’t want me to tell anyone who knows her, because she doesn’t want to be a bother and she doesn’t want anyone calling her or ( Read more... )