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In 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…
Continue ReadingWhy I’ll never run out of plot ideas
I woke up yesterday morning to youngest daughter’s announcement, “Mom, come quick! There are huge puddles of red and blue stuff in the laundry room!” I staggered out of bed, and went downstairs to find that a gallon of red…
Continue ReadingTime for more doll wrecks!
I’m what you would call a doll aficionado. Or perhaps just a doll addict. I don’t seem to be able to resist buying them. I’ve got three doll cabinets that don’t begin to house my collection, so dolls sit perched…
Continue ReadingI’m going to be one of those sorts of grandmas
You know, the type of grandmas who think everyone wants to see pictures of their grandchildren. Yep, apparently I’m one of those. Meet Baby X, thus called because her parents haven’t finalized a name yet. I was four hours away…
Continue ReadingEcho in Time Book Launch this Tuesday
It’s about time for me to start worrying incessantly that no one will come to my book launch. Don’t make me weep at Changing Hands Bookstore. It wouldn’t be pretty. So here are reasons to come to the book launch…
Continue ReadingThe dish on Echo in Time
This book was a long time in the making. The first incarnation of Erasing Time was a book called Time Riders I wrote over ten years ago. I won’t go into a lot of detail about that book. I’ll just…
Continue ReadingThe annual bad Christmas gifts report
It’s that time of year when we buy gifts for friends, family, and our favorite authors. (Not that I’m asking or anything, but chocolate is the food of muses.) As I search for gift ideas of my own, I can’t…
Continue ReadingVegas Stories, part three: Some of us can find ways to embarrass ourselves without being drunk
The heroines of my stories frequently have embarrassing moments. I wish I could say these scenes were the result of my vivid imagination and not the aftereffects of me blundering through life. But yeah. No. It’s the latter. So I had…
Continue ReadingVegas Stories part two–why you shouldn’t swear.
As an author, I love to hear other author’s bad school visit stories. I’m not sure why. I’ve never had any truly bad visits myself. Most of my visits are great. Some are really touching and I’ll remember those kids…
Continue ReadingVegas stories–what happened there
I’m home from the Vegas Book festival and back to my normal life of cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the little people. As usual my woodland friends are here to help. (Total lie. They never help.) Anyway, I know…
Continue ReadingShang and Tori talk
Since I can’t figure out how to download pictures from my camera. (Yes, I really am that technologically impaired) I’m putting up an interview between Shang and Tori until someone more savvy than me comes home. Interview between Shang and…
Continue ReadingSlayers give-aways, interview,and top ten list
I interviewed Jesse (or tried to, anyway) over at Robin Ambrose’s blog I asked CJ for a character interview, so she, um, attempted to interview Jessie, one of the hot guys you can see on the cover of Friends and Traitors, the…
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