Gold medal in metaphors awarded to…
I've been watching the Olympics pretty much non-stop since we got back from the woods. I love the Olympics. I'm not even sure I know why.It's not simply that I [...]
Parade of books and nations
Where have I been? Reading. Just getting back from a two-week vacation in which I did very little but read books, write (more on that another time), and watch Nora [...]
Summer reading
Sometimes I think it's weird that there are so many "summer reading" articles every year, because I read year ’round. Year ’ROUND. But I get it. I read a lot [...]
Hey, summer.
I love summer. I still have a day job. The dishes still need washing. The laundry never stops, and yet, somehow, summer feels—looser.I get more writing done. I have big [...]
“How’s your book?”
"How is the thing with your book going?"That's what everyone I talk to in person wants to know, so maybe you do, too. Short answer—and I'm keeping it short on [...]
Reading
I guess I haven't posted my reading list in a while. Not sure anyone cares, but I do get a heady pleasure out of keeping the list. It's a nerd [...]
Cute and probably drunk
Someone found my blog by Googling "edgar allan poe was cute."You and I need to be friends.
Mystery of life #2
Today I was sitting on our back porch, hot and reading—what else?—a book on mysteries, when my husband came out and asked if I'd seen our plat of survey.Plat of [...]
How I got my agent
That's right. My agent.Welcome to Part Two of my writing life.I said a couple of posts back that I wouldn't talk about the process until it had been resolved, but [...]
Sail
Oh, so this is the new Google look you were all bitching about last week. I guess I should log into gmail or Blogger more often.Yes. More often than NEVER.Here's [...]