From where I’m sitting to write this, I can see—simultaneously—the crossroads of three busy streets, a El train stopping for passengers overhead, and an air conditioning unit canted awkwardly from the window of a sixth-story apartment window. I’m waiting for a friend to come meet me for…
A couple of posts ago I mentioned casually that I’d spent some of my vacation time writing. (Never marry a writer if you ever want to go on a vacation and not have your traveling partner tapping at a laptop. Lakeside or Lido deck, I get some…
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 plans. Some of those plans even come to fruition. I have not loved the last two…
“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 purpose for reasons I hope will be evident to you—it’s in someone else’s hands right now….
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 guess what, honeys? It’s resolved. It happened far faster than I thought it would. It…
“Someone hasn’t updated her blog in a week.” This is what my friend Mary Anne just said. We’re in her kitchen, “writing,” after a visit to the local mystery bookstore, Centuries and Sleuths, and the monthly Sisters in Crime Chicagoland chapter meeting. You take a girl to…
So I’ve been working on my novel again. Again? you ask. And you’d be right to call me out. See, what happens is I get sidetracked. By life. Life is very distracting, as I’m sure you’re aware. And then I have to COME BACK to my book….
OK, I’m back. Where have I been? I feel like I’ve run a marathon…er. Well, I don’t know what it feels like to run a marathon. I imagine it’s tough? Right? Anyway, I’ve been going and going like a wind-up toy. At work, at home, in my…
Time does go by, doesn’t it? Sorry. Busy. But busy with good stuff, I promise. -Working on the book. My goal is to have it in shape to start submitting to agents within the next month.-Why that timeline? Well, because I’m going to be busy developing a…
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