I work. I write. I work at working. I work at writing. Sometimes I try to work on both of them in the same day. I’ve worked at working a long time. I’ve worked at writing even longer. And even though I’m not a best-selling author (yet), I have a few thoughts about trying to […]
Archives for April 2011
Cats of Hogwarts
April 12, 2011 by 2 Comments
J. K. Rowling has four houses in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Harry Potter, for those of you who have been living under a rock). I have four cats. Ahhhh… I see you know where I am going with this. And you would be right! It recently occurred to me that each of my […]
What Romance Is, and What It Is Not
April 10, 2011 by 1 Comment
As I mentioned in an earlier post, a few months ago I had a run-in with a rather rude man at a Barnes and Noble. As a result, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the romance genre, about what it is and what it isn’t. What follows are my humble opinions on this subject, […]
A Post About The Book
April 7, 2011 by 3 Comments
As of the writing of this post, what I believe are the final changes for my book, HOLD ME, have been returned to my editor. In celebration, I thought I’d share some relatively amusing behind-the-scenes factoids about HOLD ME in case anyone was even remotely interested. So, here we go: The heroine’s name is Katie. She was named […]
Everything I Know About WordPress
April 5, 2011 by 4 Comments
As you may, or may not, know, I built this blog using WordPress. This enterprise has been a very character-building experience and has enlightened me in ways I am only beginning to comprehend. I would now like to sum up everything I’ve learned about Wordpress in a single blog post. You may have noticed that this is not an exceptionally long post. Okay, […]
Why Romance?
April 3, 2011 by 3 Comments
A few months ago, I was in my local Barnes and Noble. As I stood, innocently browsing the stacks in the (rather pitiful) Romance section, a man came from the in-store Starbucks, wife/girlfriend in tow. He walked up to me, laughed, and said, sneering, “Romance? Why Romance?” I promise you that this actually happened. It was a […]
