Pedometer fun
Our parent company just started this health incentive program that as employees exercise and use this web-based program to keep track of it, we earn points that we can earn prizes with. Part of the program is a thing called …
Phew, my kitchen stinks
The consequence for getting so into what I’m doing that I work long hours: I haven’t done my dishes in several days, and something in there stinks. Which attracts the cats, of course.
Busy day
It’s funny how when you finish a project and decide the next day you’ll catch up on all those things you’ve put off, the pace actually quickens rather than slackens. I’ve spent the last two days working longer than I …
Revised submission guidelines
In case anyone out there has been holding on to a stand-alone fantasy novel that they’d love to submit to us, I wanted to point out that our submission guidelines have been updated. I have a particular interest in a …
Dramatic sword-drawing
I’m flipping back and forth on TV between a documentary called Planet Twelve: The Secret Life of 12-Year-Olds which isn’t showing me any new secrets but is funny to watch all the same, and the beginning of The Return of …
Writing vs. editing
It fascinates me how much the editing process intertwines with the writing process. I like to write a little myself, and it’s clear to me that my talents run most clearly to the editing end of the process. I’m fine …
You must read this book
When it’s published, that is. I’m just finishing up an edit on the first book in a new dark historical series for teen girls that comes out next year. I can’t tell you much more than that, except to say …
Places I’ve visited
In answer to . It’s been growing this last year, and hopefully will grow more this summer if I get to go to ALA. create your own personalized map of the USA or check out ourCalifornia travel guide I’ve only …
Garrison Keillor on writing
Forwarded to me by a friend at work. It does seem to be at least a stereotypical line between different kinds of writers. I can’t say, though, that I’ve ever heard a writer talk about the agony–more, the hard work …
Random Sunday thoughts
My cats have been chasing each other around the house this morning, I suppose filled with spring fever. Well, they do this every day, so really I should just mark it down to them still being kittens, even though both …