This photo / journal course looks fun. I know a few people who might like to do something like this, so I'm posting here:

http://www.susannahconway.com/e-courses/unravelling/

Dakini syndicated my new blog, in case you would like to keep up with my antics AND I HOPE YOU WILL:

"For those who like to aggregate all the blogs they read onto their LiveJournal friends page, I've syndicated Sara's blog. You can add it to your friends page here: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/loveinsuburbs/  "

Thanks, Dakini!

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I'm a Gemini, and They say that makes me easily vacillate between two opposing extremes. When They're feeling generous, They say that Geminis can embrace the two sides to every story, can be of two minds about issues. Whatever. I doubt my wishy-washy nature has much at all to do with the stars.

I blame my fantastically large and flexible brain.

How ( Read more... )

I have to admit it: I like Facebook. I like having tiny connections with friends spread far and wide. Some of them I'm in regular contact with anyway, but some are people I would never see, never email, never call, or receive such messages in return. We are all so busy, so wrapped up in our adult lives of responsibility, whatever form that may take ( Read more... )

Today I received my first-ever-let's hope first in a looooooooooooooong line-royalties check.


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I just heard from our publisher that our textbook Medical Terminology Complete has just been adopted by Cabrillo College and its three branches. That's 800 books per year! Yippee!

The department chair says, "Our instructors are impressed and we have adopted the textbook! The first change in 41 years."

As this comment implies, instructors are ( Read more... )

Is that not the sweetest, most melodious word in the English language? I'm told I'll be getting my first royalties check in March for the med term textbook I and three others wrote, which was published last August. At this point we have no idea how much money it will be. Textbooks tend to be adopted slowly at first, then pick up sales over the next ( Read more... )

I like new books more than warm cookies straight from the oven. This past Sunday we picked up the following books from the UUSS bookstore.

Umberto Eco : Baudolino
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child : Riptide and Dance of Death
Kate Jacobs : The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kaya McClaren : On the Divinity of Second Chances
Elizabeth Gilbert : Eat, Pray, ( Read more... )

Teenaged vampires? Forbidden young love? You say a movie is coming out? Hand me the book! 
    I devoured Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight in just a few days during brief moments between editing jobs. Having always enjoyed vampire stories (Bram Stoker, Anne Rice), I figured it would be a lark to read this new young adult series that is getting so much ( Read more... )