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Why authors should never read their own books
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…
Continue ReadingRude commentary
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…
Continue ReadingThe perils of research
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…
Continue ReadingComicon
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…
Continue ReadingBut can she make banana bread?
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…
Continue ReadingMy least favorite time of year
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,…
Continue ReadingIn which I lose my mind
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…
Continue ReadingA better class of losers
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…
Continue ReadingWomen and the Priesthood, a Mormon woman’s perspective
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…
Continue ReadingWhy authors shouldn’t ask me to blurb their books. Sigh.
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…
Continue ReadingIn praise of spam
We all hate spam. It clogs up our inboxes and wastes our time, but today as I was deleting it, I started thinking about the plus side. Okay, actually I made up a plus side. Writers are allowed to make…
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