Once upon a time, Betsy purchased three little boy zebra finches. She named them Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. She wasn’t trying to be sacreligious, by the way. She just liked the names. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego seemed happy enough. But since they were the latest in a long line of birds of various kinds for Betsy, she […]
Archives for 2011
Life and Primroses
July 7, 2011 by
The yard at the Palatial Horvath Estate has a rather steep hill in front of the house. In the past, before the hiring of Lawn Boy, this has made it a trifle difficult and unpleasant to mow the lawn. Several years ago, I decided to dig up as much of the hill as I could […]
My Final Take
July 5, 2011 by
Yes, yes. I know everyone is tired of hearing about RWA 2011. But this was kind of a big deal for me, so I thought I could get away with writing one more post about it. I don’t get out much. I wanted to share some of my personal takeaways from the conference. These are […]
Ritas and Reflections
July 3, 2011 by
The 2011 RWA National Conference is over and I’m back at home, disoriented. The last day of the conference was all about workshops for me. I stuffed my head so full with knowledge that it still hurts. Other, braver, authors were making pitches to agents and editors. Since attending the conference, I now understand better […]
Betsy’s Excellent Adventure – The Day of Glam
July 1, 2011 by
Thursday was the day of Glam for Betsy at the RWA Conference. It started out innocently enough with a workshop on sex (*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*), then a workshop on romantic suspense. The luncheon today was the awards luncheon. One of the awards recipients was Amy Atwell, a fellow Carina Press author, so, as I […]
Betsy’s Excellent Adventure – Day 2
June 30, 2011 by
Wednesday dawned on NYC bright and fair. Wednesday dawned on Betsy with sickness and…well, we won’t go there. So unfortunately I missed the opening session with Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritson, and Steve Berry. But I hear it was wonderful. Fortunately I felt better a little later and so was able to enjoy the rest of […]
