Posted in Bombshells on Jul 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
Whenever I show up at RWA National, I usually want to do everything at once — hang out with all the writing buddies, visit the surrounding area, meet new folks, and attend all the workshops and sessions. I’d end up strung out on stress and spend several days post-conference just vegging.
This year is a little […]
Posted in Living, Writing on Jul 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Hey-hey, it’s nearly time to hit the friendly skies for Atlanta! Prepping for a conference always drives me nuts and I make tons of little checklists:
Load my schedule on the Palm Pilot. Check.
Pack the Palm Pilot’s power cable. Check.
And so on, ad infinitum. This year I’ve actually done slightly better — I got all my […]
Posted in Writing on Jul 18th, 2006 3 Comments »
There was a blog entry by Brenda Coulter over on Romancing the Blog the other day about academics reviewing and discussing romance fiction, and how the “unwritten assumption appears to be that the best romance novels contain ‘important’ themes; [sic] most often about gender roles.” Honestly, that is what academics do, but what interested me […]
Posted in Living on Jul 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
Dash The Incredible Swimming Cat nearly became a star when a National Geographic Kids freelance journalist contacted me about including Dash in an article. We were thrilled. Dash kept her coat groomed in anticipation of the glamour shot we knew would be forthcoming, and I thought up witty repartee for the interview.
Alas, swimming cats have […]
Posted in Living, Writing on Jul 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
I was paging through Dead Reckoning yesterday while working on a writing presentation I plan to give, and realized that I’d said nothing whatsoever about The Seagull Incident.
About 3-4 years ago, the dSO and I got up to find a Bonaparte’s Gull caught in fishing line here in the marina. The people in the fishing […]
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