Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
X-posted from the Mavens blog. Since I last posted right before leaving for the RWA National Convention, I’ve been swamped by the day job. My company holds a conference for its clients every year in late August or early September (depending on when we can get the hotel), and I’m a major contributor to the effort. This year, I gave…
I’m tickled pink to be able to announce that my friend, Courtney Milan, has not only expanded her family (by one puppy), but has made her first sale! Because I couldn’t say it better than the Publisher’s Marketplace announcement of the deal, here it is: Golden Heart Nominee for Breath of Honor Courtney Milan’s PROOF BY SEDUCTION, about a rigidly…
Okay, so this rant is unrelated in any way to writing, save for the fact that the incident that provoked it occurred at the RWA National Conference.1 I must preface this story by explaining that as a member of the Baby Boom generation (albeit the very tag end of it), I am of the general opinion that a cell phone…
X-posted from the Manuscript Mavens blog. By the time this post appears (thank you, Draft Blogger, for the ability to manipulate time and space!), I’ll be in San Francisco at this year’s RWA National Conference. Based on my experience at last year’s Dallas event, I’m sure I’m already exhausted, overwhelmed, and giddy with pleasure. Last year, I have to admit…
I leave on Thursday morning for the RWA National Convention in San Francisco, and I am looking forward to the whole experience so much more than I expected. You see, originally, I didn’t plan to go this year. I attended my first national conference last year in Dallas, and while I reveled in every minute of it, I didn’t feel…
X-posted from the Manuscript Mavens blog. Like Darcy, I was going to blog about my pre-conference preparations, jitters, and excitements this week, but another topic has been pushed to the forefront of my mind by recent events. You see, I’m in the throes of writing my two contracted but as yet unfinished novellas, and I’m realizing that I have a…
I’ve been AWOL for so long, I almost forgot I HAD a blog. That’s what a two-week cross-country vacation will do to you, I guess! Now that I’m back, I’m putting my nose to the grindstone to finish up the last two novellas in my Kensington anthology. My plan is to write THE END on the one I’m further along…
X-posted from the Manuscript Mavens blog A few months ago, my local paper ran an article about a group of writers in my area who get together to support one another and commiserate over their rejections. (It wasn’t the local RWA chapter, to which I belong.) Several people quoted in the story lamented over how impossible it is for a…
Today has been one of those days. You know…the kind where everything that can go wrong (or at least unexpectedly haywire) does. My 16yo niece spent the night and babysat this morning while I went to the office to teach, but that wasn’t where things got whacked. It was when I took her home after I got back. You see,…
I’ve been quiet here this week, but I’m noisy elsewhere on the Internet. Come visit me at any of the following places: At Kris Eton’s blog, where I’m the subject of her author interview this week. At the Cobblestone Author’s blog, where I posted today. On Cobblestone Mainstreet, where you can still enter my drawing for any of my Cobblestone…