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And a Happy New Year!!
I don't usually do a looking back at the year post, but this was a change year for me, at least in the realm of writing and it's sort of nice to mark that in some way.
With, say, a post.
Non-writing stuff first: The dogs and I were generally healthy this year. Work was generally okay (particularly in the 'I have a job' sense). I made no major ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas!!
Hope everyone has a fun or at least interesting Christmas.
We have lots and lots of snow. Lots. Of snow. But no wind and it's warm (which means above 20 by Iowa standards) so it's probably the nicest snow we've had in a long, long time.
Even if I will have to shovel again tomorrow.
Here for your holiday entertainment--some gratuitous dog pictures ( Read more... ) -
A Thing or Two
1. io9 mentions my book sale over here.
2. I talked to another college class about writing. Harry Potter books were the big read in this group, plus Nicholas Sparks and Faulkner (hey, I just report). I have found almost no YA readers (or at least none willing to admit it) which surprises me. The fact that there are guns in my stories continues to ( Read more... ) -
Book Deal!!!
I've been sort of sitting on this for awhile ( Read more... ) -
That Writing Thing
I haven't posted anything from the work in progress lately. And because I'm lazy and, yet, want to post something, this is what you get.
How is the work in progress going, you might well ask?
Well, I've started a new draft and it's going pretty well. I think this might be it (I always think this). I'm at about 18K right now and moving along ( Read more... ) -
And in other news....
Blue's brother, JuJu*, got Best of Breed at the German Pinscher club's first independent specialty. He topped it off the next day by taking Best of Breed and a Group1**
So, YAY, JuJu.
Also, this is the cutest damn dog picture ever (you should go look at it now because it's just a link to a home page; there's no direct link to the picture and it ( Read more... ) -
Too Young or Too Old
A few months ago, there was a discussion on a mailing list I'm on about the age at which people published their first novels. Almost all of them were younger than I am.
Not two weeks later, there was a discussion on another mailing list I'm on about the age of people who track*. Almost all of them were older than I am.
We spend a lot of time ( Read more... ) -
Catching up
1. We are having a beautiful fall in Iowa. Beautiful. Seventy degrees. Sunny every day. I'm sure we'll be sorry for it later.
2. Took the dogs tracking last weekend and they were both awesome. I had laid Blue's track across a parking lot and then between two buildings. He nailed the track across the parking lot, which is really, really hard to ( Read more... ) -
Reach Out and Read...with Dogs!
I have to tell you what Bilile and I did today because it was so much fun!
We were invited to participate in a promotion for Reach Out and Read at the local Border's bookstore this morning. I hadn't heard of this program before, but what a great program! The doctors who participate give books to kids when they come in for their regular checkups ( Read more... )
