The Writing Life
Sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes I feel like my family doesn’t understand that what I’m doing is actual work. Sometimes I think they see it as me screwing around on the computer so I don’t have to spend time with them, and sometimes the guilt becomes too much, so I set my writing aside, spend days [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Not much writing going on here lately. I’ve been scrambling, lots of kid related activities. Two more parties in the forthcoming week. So I’ve been baking and cleaning and decorating. So it’s Thanksgiving today. Nobody celebrates it here. It’s not a holiday. The kids had school as usual, which meant I had to hustle to [...]
googly eyed
(or weird stuff you find when you start googling yourself) I wrote this, my first published romance. Not my first finished one, mind you. I’ve got my share of crap that I eventually decided wasn’t good enough for anyone else. Practice books. The Last Light came out in 2002. I can’t believe I actually put [...]
Music (or muse-ic?)
Sometimes when I’m listening to a song, I could write a story, just based on the lyrics. I’m not a melody person at all, but I remember lyrics, sometimes all too well. Here are some songs that beg me to write about them: Chasing Cars – Snow PatrolRun – Snow PatrolDesert Rose – Sting (with [...]
Happy Birthday
Dear Dad, In November of 1998, your hands were frail, paper thin skin drawn tight over swollen knuckles. You had liver spots, although you were only sixty-eight, not old by today’s standards. Old is eighty-something. Old is for other people. That day, you struggled to breathe and disdained the oxygen the doc wanted you to [...]
random bitching
Bitch 1: porn wannabesWhy is it when some romance writers are choosing their pseudonym, they go with something that sounds like a pornstar? See, I realize you’re unleashing your inner wanton by writing erotic stuff but does naming yourself “Jemima Luscious,” “Sinn Sweet”, or “Tawny Love” help the industry? C’mon, ya’ll. Show a little class. [...]
Good Touch ( or what I’m working on now)
Here’s the first chapter, no setup, though Salome has an inside track on this. Enjoy. Post comments. — Chance Met Right now, I’m a redhead. I’ve been blonde and brunette as the situation requires, though an unscheduled color change usually means I need to relocate in the middle of the night or face people burning [...]