Cool stuff--looking on the bright side:

Sell-through on my most recent *Gwen Hunter* book (SLEEP SOFTLY, a forensic/medical thriller) was 65%, which is *grand*!
House is clean.
Hip and back are pretty much pain free.
Cholesterol is down.
Lost 9 lbs! Whoowhoowhoo!
Had lunch with gal-pals this week. Sushi to die for! OMG!
Bought a new pair of boots on line ( Read more... )

The new boots are here! (gold metallic leather, BTW) Why does the boots seem so much more important than global warming, the state of the union, or the condition of the stock market? And why do the new boots seem so much less important than the little boy I observed at lunch today.

The child was maybe four years old, tired, whiny, and wanting ( Read more... )

Writers are supposed to be creative in lots of ways -- which is really cool until the brain hits overload and starts shorting out. Today I am making a new kind of necklace using various colors of embroidery thread and Amazonite, an aqua stone, while I'm thinking about new weapons for my characters to use to kill Darkness. I need a new sword for ( Read more... )

Being a writer, my head is always filled with new worlds and characters who are either saving the world or trying to destroy it. Sometimes literally. So when I make a new piece of jewelry or get a new pair of boots, I have to take a break and enjoy it. I finally uploaded a boot PIC.  take a gander...

And Seraphs is out! The second book in the ( Read more... )

A first blog should be interesting and inviting and intense and should have lots of stuff about boots on it, but I'm nervous and so I'll just be quick today. I never wanted to blog, never read blogs before except for Misty Massey's and fell like ti's rather presumptuous for me to think that anyone would want to read stuff I think about. But maybe I ( Read more... )