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
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
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
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
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?
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 […]