Little things:

A double shadow this morning at 5:30 ... one from the streetlamp behind me, one from the moon overhead.

A surprise gift from a friend - a little silver camera charm on a necklace. I'm going to wear it to my book signing! Thanks, friend. xo

Listening to THE HELP on audiobook. Ever since lisa_schroeder commented that she thought the Southern ( Read more... )

I'm thankful to be heading to LA in a few hours, where I will:

- hang out with many children's writers!

- finally meet online friends in person!

- see some high school and college friends!

- hear Sherman Alexie speak!

I'm also thankful I started my day with pie and coffee, as nature intended.

:-)

Those of you who follow me on Twitter know my son left yesterday morning for a three-day, two-night field trip with about 70 other classmates (3rd, 4th, 5th graders). They're doing Lewis and Clark studies on the Oregon coast. My husband was supposed to go on the trip, also, to be a chaperone and work on the chuck wagon ( Read more... )

I am thankful the Little League game ended in a win last night, and I could rush my blanket-clad self to the car and turn on the heater. I swear, when I took out my cell phone, it felt like a slab of ice. THAT'S HOW COLD IT WAS. After three days of lovely warm weather, it was a bitter slap ( Read more... )

I’m thankful for GALLEYS!

They arrived yesterday evening, and there was a perfect little detail on the page after the title page that I didn’t know the designer was going to add … and it just happens to be a tiny piece of art in the shape of an item I contributed to the Debs’ Giveaway packages. Wavelength!

( Cut for hard drive angst )

I am thankful for a big dog sprawled on his back like a drunken starlet. Soon he will sneeze and roll onto his side. He always does.

What do you think of my new website?


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I got my editor’s permission to share the cover for FLASH BURNOUT!

I really love it, and I wanted to write a long post about how much it means to me to finally see my characters come to life… but nothing I can say will accurately capture the feeling.

I just really love it.

( Really, really love it. )

I am thankful for children's books ( Read more... )

I am thankful to still have a job.

(I work in the financial industry.)