Today we have Laurel Snyder joining us in the beauty shop! Laurel a Class of 2k8 member and the author of Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains, an old fashioned fairy tale about a snippy milkmaid and a clumsy princess who venture up a mountain and learn some lessons about good government, soggy pets, and [...]

THE GOOD
Only thirty-seven more pages to edit.
THE BAD
I had planned on finishing those thirty-seven pages by last Sunday.
THE DOWNRIGHT STUPID
I applied for an administrative assistant job a while ago. However, instead of attaching my resume to my email, I attached my Shop Talk Tuesday author interview questions by mistake. (Yeah, I know. [...]

Ahhhh . . . sweatshirt weather, my favorite season! Bring on the autumn, baby.

Yesterday, I FINALLY busted through revisions on a very difficult chapter, the kind where the emotional arc of three main characters collide. What a relief! Now I have another roughly seventy-five pages before this draft is finished. Then I’ll have [...]

The shop’s been closed for a while, but today we have Nancy Viau joining us! Nancy is a Class of 2k8 member and the author of Samantha Hansen has rocks in her head.

Sam is a ten-year-old mad scientist, but she doesn’t blow up stuff or change kids into cats that bark. She just has [...]

Wave the flag, fire off the shotgun start and let the games begin because today is the first day of Jonowrimo , woo-HOO!
Need some inspiration? Listen to Laura Izibor’s amazing song, Shine a few times. It’s a great motivator!

Forget calling Jenny Craig. Have you jonowrimo’d yet?
Tick, tock, it starts next Monday, September 15, so sign up, already!

My goals?
1. Finish editing my current wip by the end of September.
2. Write the first draft of a novel that I CAN’T WAIT to start!

Ouch.
I have, once again–for the thousandth time–rededicated myself to a workout plan. So, after lifting weights yesterday, I had to find a new best friend . . .

This stuff is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! My sore, achy-breaky back is now burning and tingling in the most delightful way. And I need all the help I [...]

Many, many congratulations to Marlene Perez for the September 1st release of DEAD IS THE NEW BLACK!

Thanks to the lovelies at Harcourt Paperbacks, I got a copy over the summer and I absolutely LOVED it! I’m looking forward to the follow-ups, DEAD IS A STATE OF MIND and DEAD IS SO [...]

Fourteen. More. Chapters. To. Go.
And then I’m done, done, done with this massive rewrite. (Well, I still need to go back and do another rewrite, but probably not as massive as this one. At least I hope not as massive.)
Anyway, if you need a giggle, watch this. It [...]