Aren't you all opinionated. By a large margin, Rideaux is coming in for the favored name. I'm, as usual, pathetically grateful for your input. LJ has never yet steered me wrong.

Poll Oh, more name stuff?I don't know if it's due to the drapes/secrecy/favorite chateau aspect of Rideaux that made you all vote for it. Additional sentimental odds and ends include Glassier as a ( Read more... )

so, apparently, I need to choose an authorial name.

Samantha George is a bit too common, as is the second choice of Samantha Rivers.

So here are some choices:

Poll Help me decide my pen name!

I wrote a book.

It's in the talented hands of my editor right now, being shoved and pushed and dragged into a readable structure against its more nefarious and base desires and egregious comma splices.

But I wrote a book. I wrote a book.Welcome back to the world, I have conquered my writer's block (with a ridiculous amount of support and hand ( Read more... )

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off. That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au ( Read more... )

Despite being busy with beginning a new job this week, I managed to bang out another thing for that site run by that person we all know. Not only that, she managed to catch me in a moment of weakness and somehow I'm now a regular and like, have to come up with shit to write about on a more frequent basis. My beat? Crime and procedurals. And I did ( Read more... )

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After the Flamingo Flourish of last week, this week's new word from the girls is "porcupine."

Discuss.


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Edna St. Vincent Millay always makes me feel like she and I are sitting in the back of the classroom passing rude notes back and forth.


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A few weeks ago sinsense created a Push Me Out of My Comfort Zone meme and I was totally gonna do it, ( until I read this question: )