book giveaways

I’ve meant to do a blog give away of a couple of my friends’ latest books for awhile. What can I say, when I’m doing revisions a lot of things fall through the cracks. This is mostly because I’m sitting…

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Stupid things celebrities say

I’ve finally started doing the revisions on Faking It. One of the things the bow-tied one wants is for my celebrity diva, Kari Hale, to say more stupid things. Believe it or not, it’s actually hard to come up with…

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Taxes–even Robin Hood isn’t spared

Paying taxes as a writer is a hassle (all those expenses and mileage to keep track of)and also really painful. Taxes don’t get taken out of royalty statements, advances, or school visit payments, so there’s always a big chunk to…

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Project Book Babe

Where do I start about Project Book Babe? I would have blogged about this earlier, but for the last few days my computer joined my children’s labor union—meaning it only worked when it wanted to, which was about three minutes…

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Project Book Babe is Saturday, April 4th

Just a reminder that all the hot vampires and ultra cool werewolves will be at Marcos de Niza High School Auditorium, 6000 S. Lakeshore Dr.,Tempe, AZ 85283from 2:00-5:00 Stephenie Meyer will be auctioning off her Twilight prom dress and if…

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Book signings then and now

When I first became an author I thought book signings were all about meeting my public, finding out what they wanted, and making them happy. Sorry public, I gave up on making you happy long ago. Now it’s all about…

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Posted by: “saramegibow” saramegibow@yahoo.com saramegibow Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:04 am (PDT) HI again – OOoops – okay, thanks for clarifying. 🙂 My mistake. Yes, with partials that I pass on there are some fairly strong common denominators. 1) The…

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Book signings and teaser

Despite the fact that I’m always afraid my book signings will turn out like a bad version of a Junior High dance–me standing idly around trying to look like I’m perfectly happy to not be doing what I came to…

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More thoughts on revisions

I was just at the Tucson Book Festival last weekend where I got to hang out with many fun writers including political cartoonist David Fitszimmons. He gave me this cartoon that he used during his presentation. No particular reason why.…

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Round two of revisions for Faking It

I got my second revision letter and manuscript comments from the bow-tied one. I will share some of it with you and interpret it for you along the way. In his email to me, he said, “You’re doing great! We…

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