Courtesy of the Friday list of jongibbs, Here is author Maureen Johnson explaining that she is not a brand, dammit! She is a person! And so are you! Even on the Internet!This is a delightful post, and if nothing else it reassures me on a point I once wondered if I should worry about: if I ever get published, should I actually create an "author blog" or ( Read more... )

There, my post header should cover all my credit-where-it's-due bases.

Children's mystery writer Elissa Cruz talks revision. And she means business!

I don't want to hijack her topic, so I'm not going to tell you all my brilliant thoughts on the subject right this minute--but I especially want to highlight this gem:

When I first started writing ( Read more... )

I just joined a new community: baaaaabyanimals. All entries must contain an (lj-cut protected) image of some sort of baaaaaaby animal. The community has a number of rules, all of which appear to be common sense, as well as the warning:

Violators will be fed to baaaaaaaaby lions, which is a cute but unpleasant way to die.I mean, it's hard not to like that ( Read more... )

Hi out there. A few weeks ago I mentioned that, while anonymous comments from real people are welcome, I was screening them to avoid spam. It turns out the spam I'm getting (and there's not a lot of it) is pretty well exclusively from bots. So I've turned off screening and turned on Captcha (that annoying prove-you're-human-by-typing-these-words ( Read more... )

Thank you so much, euphoricagony, for the snowflake cookie! It's dressing up my profile beautifully!

To anyone out there who is reading this journal and does not have an LJ account ( Read more... )

I probably won't get around to writing much of anything about the conference--it was terrific, and I'm seriously considering putting my name forward for a spot on the national board of the association in the next couple of years, but time moves forward and the blog moves on ( Read more... )

Sorry, Mr. Tolstoy. (What is "mister" in Russian? I know someone out there knows this ( Read more... )

Down in the responses to the post about peeves, beth_bernobich posted a link to an essay she wrote about when a trick becomes a cheat in a story. I'm linking directly to it because she makes a bunch of good points ( Read more... )

A fight just broke out on another LJ community I'm on (why yes, it does relate to horses) and I have reached the conclusion that people are crazy.

I know you're all astonished to learn this.