I've been on Facebook, as some of you know, because life hit the Fast Forward button and it's a venue for the having of small ideas. I've also attempted to manage a blog to promote my writing, meaning it as a place for the airing of bigger ideas, but guess how often I post there? Yeah. That's about the size of it ( Read more... )

Not too long ago, I went on a history bender and read firsthand accounts of life during WWII on both sides of the conflict. I feel happy to report that damn-all in the current USA resembles anything at all about the Third Reich.  Seriously.  I have not spotted a single solitary public hanging of someone who voiced dissent, let alone rows and rows ( Read more... )

I'm trying to decide if the current state of weirdness is just Mommy brain and stress or an actual Something. More accurately, I have gone to a neurologist and have a "headache diary" and am supposed to keep a food diary. Since one of the main complaints I had was an inability to organize or plan, the neurologist did apologize for having to make me ( Read more... )

"Write About Dogs!" indeed -- I finally did.  There is now a book called Homeschool Your Puppy available at Lulu and reviewable at Goodreads.  Now that's out, maybe I can get my butt back to writing fiction like a sensible person ( Read more... )

There is a rhythm to posting at LJ.  I have broken it.

These days I have three blogs at blogspot, one at Goodreads, and the good ol' FB feed, three email accounts, and no conversations.  There used to be a pattern that involved posting here, emailing with a few of you and a few on-the-ground friends and relatives, and a bit of AIM.  Now I have an ( Read more... )

So, I've decided the self-publish site is a good place to put things that I've already published somewhere else and which have since gone out of print.  If you wanted to pick up a copy of Half-Sick of Shadows but missed it at Shadowfire Press, now there's a new enhanced second edition available from Lulu in paperback or ebook.  This time I even ( Read more... )

I have so many things I should do in the next hour or so that I don't want to do a single one of them.  What causes that?

Anyway.  A word or two on self-publication: I have now sold half again as many of Carried by the Tides through Lulu as I sold of Half-Sick of Shadows through Shadowfire Press.  This sounds great if I don't put in actual numbers ( Read more... )

I turned on the computer to clean a zillion photos off the two digital cameras; my son is turning into quite the little photographer, but even his loving mother does not need 4,000 experiments in composition on a shot of his own foot.  Some of his efforts, though, are quite good, and I try to tell him so.  He is three now, using all sorts of big ( Read more... )

http://www.lulu.com/shop/erika-tracy/carried-by-the-tides/paperback/product-20632386.html?mid=social_facebook_pubsharefbRead more... )

I mean, woah.

Done list:

Hubbie to work
Two doctors' appointments made (one 'cause I'm 40 and the other because apparently I'm a bit hyperthyroid, which explains some things)
Kid fed
Dogs fed
Kid read to
Some of the dish mountain excavated (mountaintopping is not always bad)

To-Do list:
Edit several existing stories
Toy with title: "Can't Hide Your Lion Eyes ( Read more... )