As readers of my book blog know, things are reaching a climax, at least in this first draft, and I had planned to finish off a chapter today. Hah.
Over the weekend, my husband started spitting up blood — why do these things always start on weekends?! — so this morning, he called our family [...]
Archive for April, 2007
The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Writers….
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Saint Meme
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Cribbed from Elizabeth:
The task is to name four of your favourite Saints, one who was well on the way to sanctity, is widely venerated already and very likely to be made a Saint in due course, and one who isn’t yet publicly declared a saint but probably should be made a Saint.
My votes:
St. John of [...]
Barking Mad
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
A very dear internet crony, who has been feeding my ego by reading my books came up with the phrase “barking mad” to describe one of my characters, who is indeed slightly batty. A crank. Just at the moment, that’s a bit how I feel.
I [...]
Into the Dark
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I noted, a few posts back, that I had returned to writing, and that this latest book in a series was dark. It just got darker, in ways I had not anticipated.
I began the series by wanting to write just one book, a simple romance about an American cop and a Russian cop. [...]
The Lit Nerd
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Cribbed from Elizabeth’s blog. Disappointing that this code apparently doesn’t show how you scored on other types of Nerddom, because the actual test did: I scored about 80% as a Music Nerd, maybe 60% Drama Nerd, 50% Artistic Nerd, 30% Gamer/Computer Nerd (probably because I spend upwards of six hours a day online!), [...]
Affirmation!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have mentioned in a number of places that my current favorite TV show is NCIS, which is on on Tuesday evenings. The medical details of autopsy gross me out, but I absolutely love the interplay among all the characters, especially the Mark Harmon and David McCallum characters (i.e., my generation) with their four [...]
Different Profile Pic
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Having seen other folks’ nifty cartoon characters, I thought I’d look into getting my own, and came up with a Yahoo avatar. I hope this works:
Updates on Various Matters
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Many of you have been kind enough to e-mail me privately, asking about Chris, so I thought I’d satisfy everyone’s questions with a public blog: He’s fine. Now that the first shock has worn off, he’s had a chance to evaluate and to realize how “lucky” (read: blessed!) he was, that things [...]
