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When humor writers go bad . . .

July 28, 2014

Son of War, Daughter of Chaos isn’t like my other young adult books. Somehow I went from writing romantic comedies where girls mistake the lawn guy for their blind date (How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend) to a story…

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Why authors should never read their own books

July 22, 2014

It probably doesn’t surprise you to hear that after a book is published, I never want to read it again. I’ve wrestled with writing it and rewriting it so many times, I’m sick of it. I recently got the rights…

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We have bad news about your stuffed animal

It now is a bunch of fluff.

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Rude commentary

June 30, 2014

You’re probably thinking I have something rude to say here, but that’s not the sort of rude I mean. As I once again prepare for the Enrique Worst Pick Up Lyrics in a Song awards, I’ve been pondering the song Rude by…

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The perils of research

June 22, 2014

Writers are supposed to be accurate about story details. And we try. Really, I’m sure it bothered me more than anyone else when I realized that characters in Slayers went to BMI airport  instead of BWI. And to tell you the…

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Comicon

June 9, 2014

As usual, I had a great time at comicon. If you’ve never been, you feel a little bit like you’ve walked into that bar in the first Star Wars movie. Here I am, attempting to go back in time to…

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But can she make banana bread?

May 29, 2014

As you saw two posts ago, I lost my mind and got another dog. (And no, she isn’t completely potty trained yet.) My middle daughter who just graduated from high school was holding her the other day, and said, “She’s…

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My least favorite time of year

May 22, 2014

Those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile know that my least favorite time of year isn’t any of the sweltering Arizona days that linger for months somewhere  between 115 degrees and an all out inferno. No,…

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In which I lose my mind

May 13, 2014

Most people have those insane moments, those moments of weakness where they consider doing something that is clearly stupid. If you are lucky, you don’t have children around to exploit your moments of weakness. I wasn’t lucky. It started on…

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A better class of losers

May 4, 2014

It’s that special time of year when I’m home from the Whitneys and get to regale you all with descriptions of the gala event. For those of you who don’t know what the Whitneys are, they’re awards given out to…

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Women and the Priesthood, a Mormon woman’s perspective

April 6, 2014

This post is going to be long. But hey, my novels are even longer, and people pay money to read those. So just consider this post to be an awesome bargain. A lot of people have been discussing the role…

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Why authors shouldn’t ask me to blurb their books. Sigh.

March 22, 2014

Every so often I get requests from authors to blurb their books. Sometimes I can wholeheartedly offer a great blurb, but usually it ends up being a disaster. Not long ago, a new author asked me for a blurb, and…