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When I wrote my first book, TOUCHING THE SURFACE, I was obsessed with my musical playlist. I hardly ever wrote without it playing in the background. When I was brainstorming parts of the novel, I listened to certain songs over and over again. To this day, any of the songs on ( Read more... )

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As I’ve been following the good, bad and ugly at my children’s former school district (lots of families feeling ambushed with an unwelcome and unorganized redistricting) I recently came across a few conversations where one group of people were having a violently strong ( Read more... )

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It’s April Fools Day, but my blog today in no joke. Ha ha! I had to do it-so sorry.

Moving on…

What I was trying to tell you was that I’d like to hug the universe right now. Why? Because, even though writing brings me great joy-producing good stuff is HARD! Really hard. I ( Read more... )

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Recently I’ve been knee deep in revision, doing some critiques for friends, and answering some writerly questions at a bookstore event. The collision of these processes has gotten me thinking and I’ve come to the conclusion that we writers are never as good as we think we are ( Read more... )

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And that folks is how it happens. BOOM! One day I’m trucking along and-well-that’s a lie I wasn’t really trucking along-it was more like trudging. So-day after day I’m trudging along-really slogging through my revisions. Of course I do this with a little happy smile on my face ( Read more... )

Now that I've hit the tipping point within my work in progress, THE OPPOSITE OF GRAVITY, I want to spend every spare minute of my writing time working on book two.  Thought I'd share with you one of my favorite writing tools--SCRIVENER!!!  My fellow Class of 2k12/Apocalypsies debut author Cory Jackson did a wonderful vlog about SCRIVENER for the ( Read more... )

Normally I would say that it's to my advantage, as a writer, to turn off the TV and get my butt in front of my computer.  More time writing makes me a better writer.  But...there are exceptions to every rule.  I know I'm coming very late to the game (literally) on this one, but I am hooked on FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.  I know all the rest of you ( Read more... )

As you know, I turned in my first round of revisions on TOUCHING THE SURFACE and I'm not expecting to hear back from my made-of-awesome editor, Anica Rissi until mid-June. While I've been waiting biting my nails, I've done some yard work and laundry, caught up on some assignments for my debut authors groups and peered into the woods.  Not the ( Read more... )

I didn't mean to wait so long to write the final installment of my quest to get an agent. (Sorry about that.)  The good news is that I'm revising my tactics and actively pursuing ways to become a new and improved, more competent blogger.   More to come on that later, but for now it's back to the world of agenting. If you're coming late to the ( Read more... )

 Would love to stay and chat but *drumroll* I'm being productive.  The fevered child is cool and sleeping at the moment.  The hubby is out shopping for goodies to cook dinner for me and the two older boys are entertaining their Grandmother.  What am I up to?  I'm color coding the chapters in my second novel THE OPPOSITE OF GRAVITY because I've ( Read more... )