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My Wonderful editor
Okay, I have to give major kudos to the bow-tied one. In fact, I take back all of those things I’m going to say about him during my next book’s revisions. He asked me a long time ago who I…
Continue ReadingPictures from my daughters that make me nervous
Lately I’ve been getting pictures from my daughters that make me . . .well, just a tad bit concerned. Here are a series of drawings that my youngest daughter drew in comic book like procession. As you can tell they…
Continue ReadingSTDev and book update
I just had to let you all know–because I know you’re awaiting the news as eagerly as you’re awaiting the next Twilight book–that I got an A- on my STDev test, which gave me an A- in the class. I…
Continue ReadingOn the other hand, maybe college isn’t such a good idea
Here is a confession: I never finished college. I meant to, but after my husband graduated and we moved to Arizona, it just became one of those goals that went on the back burner. I always said I’d go back…
Continue ReadingThe evil new computer
We got a new computer. It was time. The last one was so old and slow that the other computers just laughed at it whenever it went on the Internet. The problem is that the new computer now has Vista.…
Continue ReadingStarting a new book
My editor, AKA the bow-tied one, asked me to send him plot ideas for my next novel. “They don’t have to be fully developed,” he told me. “Just any ideas that you think are good.” So I sent him several…
Continue ReadingHaiku, Low-ku, and chocolate
I forgot to add one thing about my class at BYU, and that was the Low-ku contest. (Haiku that is low on the poetic scale.) I thought Mike in my class wrote the best Low-ku poem. He was simply robbed…
Continue ReadingMy fab Utah trip part two and the famous guy
Janette Rallison and some wonderful, marvelous, incredibly talented writers. After hanging out with Shannon Hale and her fab entourage, I went to BYU to teach at an annual writer’s workshop. And really, I don’t know when I’ve had so much…
Continue Readingmy fab trip to Utah–Shannon Hale
I came to Utah to teach at the BYU writing conference, but first I went to ShannonCon. (Shannon Hale kept on insisting that she didn’t name the gathering ShannonCon–her fans did, but we know better. As soon as I become…
Continue ReadingUtah and Arizona announcements–plus more Orlando Bloom
For all of you in Utah and Arizona I have some events coming up. Please come! Because as you know I hate to look bad in front of book store employees. Saturday June 21stBarnes and Noble330 East University Parkway (1300…
Continue ReadingFact Checking in the Real World, part 2
When I first decided to write books, I always knew that there would be some story scenes that had roots in incidents from my real life. What I didn’t realize was how many times I would write a scene or…
Continue ReadingFact Checking in the Real World, part 1
I just got my galleys (page proofs) back for Just One Wish, which has made me think about all the facts authors have to check when we write novels. For example, in this story the main character, Annika, tells her…
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