I've been maintaining two blogs for years and years now, but I've watched as most of my readers have left this LJ community and traffic to my Blogger version of this blog has steadily increased.

So, in an attempt to streamline my online life, I'm closing down shop here.  I'll still keep this blog active so I can participate in some LJ communities I' ( Read more... )

The holiday season is upon us, and I've been contemplating what to give my extended relatives, friends, and total strangers who scratch their heads each time I post a writing-related update on my social networks.  And since I believe in giving thoughtful and useful gifts, I have compiled this list of writing terms and definitions to send to all, so ( Read more... )

Today I'm plugging my post on my other blog. If you know of a child (preferrably 8-12, since that's the target age) interested in adventure stories, please check out the interview I conducted with C. Alexander London, all about his Accidental Adventure series (it's tres cool, I'll tell you that much here).

Speaking of accidental adventures,  I ( Read more... )

You've probably noticed that I'm what you'd call a funny(ish) gal.  So it wasn't a big surprise when my first novel (a mystery) turned out to be a humor(ish) book in places.  My second novel was a riot--it housed talking geckos and robot pirates and flying space galleons and monkey overlords and a SECRET that could blow up the universe if it got ( Read more... )

How many of you writers out there have taken one writing course after another in order to learn how to write (or write better)?  Or who went to college for a degree in writing ( Read more... )

Yes.  You read that title right.  I have learned something by watching a tree.  And not just a something, but a something that was brilliant enough to make it into a blog post.  A something so fantasmic, so alarmingly insightful, so ( Read more... )

So, yes, it's true.  The lovely folks at Kidlit Con have graciously extended another invitation for my blogging buddies at that other blog and me to speak to the attendees.  We won't tell them how crazy that idea is, because...SHHH...

...come closer...

...we don't want them to know that I'm just making things up as I go along.

*whistles*

Anyway, This ( Read more... )

So, many of you know about that other blog I work on. I try to keep the two blogs separate, since I know not all of you are middle-grade authors or have middle-grade kids.

Well, I'm breaking my "never the twain shall meet" rule today. You're just gonna have to deal with it, I guess.

That's because, on rare occasions, we do these really cool, super ( Read more... )

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*pops head out of hole*

Are you still here?

What?

You've been waiting all this time to read another entry from me?

Well, we aren't going to discuss what that may mean about your sanity (because, honestly, I can't imagine why anyone would hang on my every word), but if you insist on reading new entries on my blog, I am pleased to announce that your  ( Read more... )