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The worst pick up lyrics Award 2012

June 3, 2012

Last year I created the Enrique Iglesia Memorial Worst Pickup Lyrics in a Song Award. The award bears Enrique’s name due to his touching and romantic song:  I Want To–insert the crassest term you can think of here–You Tonight. I’m not…

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Comicon, where else can you chat with the Grim Reaper

May 26, 2012

Friday and Saturday I did panels at the Phoenix Comicon. I’ve got to say, it was a memorable experience.  Here I am chatting with the Grim Reaper. Turns out that Grim is a fan. Who knew, right? I guess even…

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Why I hate graduation decorations

May 20, 2012

Okay, here’s the horrible thing about parenting.  You put in 18 years of work, love, and care into your children–nurturing them from the time they were nothing but a lump of cells, and then when your children graduate from high…

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The Reason You Should Keep A Journal

May 17, 2012

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In Which I lose again

May 12, 2012

It’s that special time of year–the time when I lose the Whitney Award to someone else. (This year, to Rob Wells for his book Variant.) As is the tradition (that I started, by the way. I am an experienced loser.) the losers gather…

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Deep thoughts while I wait for Friday

May 8, 2012

Inspired Kathy just emailed me to remind me that I signed up for a blog-hop giveaway on Friday. At first I was a little reluctant to do a blog hop, as hopping sounds dangerously close to exercising, and I do…

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Book Signings

April 30, 2012

My first book signing happened a few months after I’d given birth to 13 pounds of twins. So beforehand, I went shopping to find a magical dress that would hide the fact that I still looked like I was carrying…

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Truth in advertising, why writers are needed

April 23, 2012

This morning when I got the strawberries out of the fridge, I noticed that the package said they were “limited edition”.  I hate to disagree with packaging, but how can strawberries be limited editions?   Does this mean I should…

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So you’ve written your book–now what?

April 17, 2012

One of my most common emails (that I get, not that I send–just clarifying) is from people who have completed their novel and they want to know what to do next. My first response is: rewrite it. I don’t tell…

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What I’m doing now

April 8, 2012

You’d think that after writing twenty plus novels it wouldn’t be hard anymore. Maybe it wouldn’t be if I kept writing the same novel over and over again. (Hey it worked for Barbara Cartland . . .) But unfortunately I…

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The bribery continues

April 4, 2012

First off, let me say that I really thought I was through bribing blog readers to do random things. I mean, I never intended this blog to be like those What-would-you-do-for-a-Klondike-bar commercials. Although it isn’t readily apparent, I have more…

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11 Ways not to start your novel

March 18, 2012

I’m about to read a lot of first pages from hopeful authors. I’ve done countless critiques over the years, and so I both look forward to and dread this job. Opening up the pages of a book is a bit…