Life is getting exciting here but a little baffling at the same time. Last March, and I may have blogged about this, I went to the Jambalaya Jubilee conference in Houma, LA. It’s a small conference held in a public library, and this was the second time I went. This year I pitched Sword & …
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I’ve been working on Sword & Illusion for a long time. I remember being at RWA Nationals in Atlanta in 2006 while my husband read the first draft. He said “Three or four hundred more pages and you’ll have it. I thought he was joking. Well, here it is, five years later, and the book …
Do you know about Rebecca Black? She is this young girl whose mother paid $4,000 to a vanity video/music producer so Rebecca could record and make a video for this song called “Friday.” You can’t see the video anymore on YouTube, but it went viral because a lot of people think it’s the worst song …
I have been thrilled to see how the people at my husband’s work respect him and come to him for advice and trust him with responsibility. I was there when he was in graduate school and for years he had no self-esteem and thought he’d never get anywhere in his chosen career. It’s been a …
Since the RWA National Conference, I have believed that I was a hardcore pantser – someone who gets a story idea and dives, blindly, into the mist and trusts that the story will present itself. In workshops at the conference, I heard other hardcore pantsers talk about their writing process. Several of them are multipublished …
I have two book ideas (okay I have a ton but this post is about two in particular) that kinda play off a “superhero” idea. One that’s on the back burner for the time being is a YA about a high school girl whose mother marries the headmaster of a superhero high school, and therefore, …
This weekend was one I look forward to every year, even if part of the time it’s with trepidation. The Heart of Louisiana Chapter of Romance Writers of America held their fourth annual Readers’ Luncheon, Fall in Love with Romance on Saturday, 6 Nov. S Sherrilyn Kenyon was our main speaker. She gave a wonderful, …
I’m a pantser and today I’m fighting with my process. I learned in Orlando that one of the problems I’ve been having with my writing is that I have been trying to fight my own process. I am a pantser to the tips of my toes, but I am finding out that I have to …
Okay, not totally terrible, but I went down to the Dolphin lobby early because I wanted to meet people, find someone to chat with, you know, hang with lovely romance writers. Well, it turns out that if you have a computer in front of you and your fingers are flying across the keys, people “think” …
Me: I’m thinking about making my hero a veterinarian. Beloved: You know, veterinary school is very hard to get into. Me: That’s one of the joys of being a writer. I can just say it’s so and it’s so. No tests, no grades, no hassle!