Blog awards

From Shannon at Book DreamingFrom Jen at uneditedFrom Medeia at Medeia Sharif and Tyrean at Tyrean's Writing SpotFrom Simon at Constant RevisionFrom Janet at It Is What It IsFrom...

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Stories are everywhere*

Where do you get your ideas?It's the Grand FAQ we writers face nearly every time we meet someone new. Some writers will tell you they write from life. They're trying to process...

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More giveaways

Check out MG and YA writer Christina Farley's big book giveaway at Chocolate for Inspiration: your chance to win one of three fabulous prizes. The deadline to enter is January...

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Gifts for the fourth day of Christmas (minus the calling birds)

My long-overdue thanks to Shannon at Book Dreaming for the Picasso Award!This little beauty comes with the stipulation that I pass it on to seven other blogs and share seven things...

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Enter today -- contest at Book Dreaming

Shannon over at Book Dreaming is hosting a big book giveaway in honor of reaching 100 blog followers. Stop on over to win one of two prizes--a set of adult fiction and writing...

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Daytripper: tips for researching on location

Yesterday my family and I took a trek up to NYC for some holiday fun and a wee bit of research for me. How I landed on a New Yorker MC rather than a Philly girl (which would require...

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Gasping, clutching the stitch in my side

My sincere apologies to you all for being a big time blogland slacker. I am way, way, way behind with acknowledging all the generous blog awards bestowed in the past week and...

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Snogfest in blogland

In honor of mistletoe, a group of writer bloggers are participating in a Kissing Day Blogfest. To sign up, stop by Sherrinda's blog, A Writer Wannabe.Kissing scenes are not the...

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Handling the holi-daze

It's less than a week till Christmas and chances are the holiday hubbub is upon you: attending and hosting parties, decorating, cooking, baking, shopping, wrapping, attending...

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What is not there

While washing my hands at work this morning, I realized my left hand looked a little strange. Naked. The spot where my engagement ring and wedding band usually sit was empty....

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All I want for Christmas...

...or maybe Easter, is this Gilmore Girls book! The university presses are rolling out their spring catalogs and this particular title made me squee with delight:Screwball Television:...

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You say you want a resolution...

(My apologies to the Beatles. I've listened to far too much Weird Al in my lifetime, and seem to hear parody potential everywhere.)As the calendar year wraps up, my mind leaps...

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Editor on call:** ending apostrophe abuse

Apostrophe anxiety in the digital ageRoots of the problem--the demise of gatekeepersFor generations, the humble apostrophe has been quietly helping us keep track of who owns what...

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Editor on call

Last night, one of my critique group friends called with an urgent punctuation question. It was something pretty simple about quotes within quotes.This got me wondering if any...

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Scrappy-doo

The lovely, soon-to-be published Tamara over at Chasing Dreams bestowed my second blog award--The Honest Scrap. I blush, I swoon.... Seriously though, it was a wonderful treat...

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You got some 'splainin' to do

I was mercilessly flogging revising chapter six last night and hit a paragraph where my MC cues up Mozart's Requiem on her iPod in what should set up a totally Emo, wallowing-in-self-pity...

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I humbly accept...and sincerely shout out for some superior scribblers

Thanks to Simon over at Constant Revision for naming me a Superior Scribbler! He must've gotten wind of my love of jotting notes on ATM receipts and in el-cheapo spiral notebooks....

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Is it them or is it me?

Ah, holiday parties, when well-meaning friends inevitably ask, "how's the book coming?" and I have to admit I'm revising AGAIN."But I thought you were trying to find an agent.""Well,...

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Apprenticeship in the guild

Meeting for writer's group is always a highlight of the month. We're an exceptionally diverse group genre-wise: literary fiction, fantasy, magical realism, young adult, memoir...

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The best gift: getting published

It's been sooo hard to keep this under wraps, but one of my pieces was published today in the Winter 09-10 issue of Flashquake! "Wedding Singer" is the true story of one of my...

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