Finished!
Finished. The power of that word is knee rattling for me. It’s so potent and overwhelming I’ve been known to cry when I finally get to type the words “fin” at the end of a manuscript. There is a rush of adrenalin, fear, excitement and then….fear. A dash of exhilaration and a sense of accomplishment and did I mention the fear? What if it’s crap? I mean, this isn’t bad poetry I get to tuck in a journal somewhere and hide until it’s drum circle time….this is a BOOK. 1)...
Read MoreCapuchin!
3am is not always a time for great humor. No, really. Unless you’re a night person, not a lot of laughs in general when something wakes you up at 3am. Unless it’s your two year old. In tears. Miserable. Because she cannot find “Capuchin!” (her capuchin monkey toy…aptly named Capuchin.) Capuchin! Capuchin! I groggily get up, try to whisper words of comfort, make the search in the semi-darkness, locate Capuchin and his best friend, Grey Bunny, whom we...
Read MoreRT Countdown!
I heard a rumor that the RT BookLover’s convention is actually an annual event (which would give a person approximately a year in between each one to prepare, right?) But once again, I seem to have lost track of time and in the mad scramble to prepare for Chicago, this year, I’m just forfeiting my pride and admitting that from my perspective, February was yesterday, it might still be 2011 and I cannot for the life of me find my tea cup again. Oh, yes. I’m on top of...
Read MoreOff the Clock!
Daylight Savings Time is killing me! I needed that hour of sleep, people! Writers on deadline are already delicate, overwrought cranky beasts…and then when we look up and an hour has magically evaporated to balance some cosmic clock somewhere…it gets ugly. Fast. I can’t find my tea cup. (I know. What’s new?) But everything’s ‘off’ just one or two degrees and it’s making me crazy. And then the semi-annual rant begins and I am a very...
Read MoreJudi McCoy
We lost her today. That sounds funny, doesn’t it? Like she’s misplaced or under the bed or wandering around a state park somewhere with a giant purse and a flashlight wondering how she got talked into going for a walk in the great outdoors in the middle of February. Except it’s hard to laugh today. Judi McCoy passed away due to complications from diabetes and… it’s hard to laugh today. I’m running out of tissue. I’m weeping like a...
Read MoreCat Nip
Ah, to be a cat! I swear I look at the felines that occupy our house and I envy them… a lot! A couple of days ago the girls decided to get into the cat nip and needless to say, there was a little bit of a party. Otter and Blue were wide-eyed with happiness at the generosity of my five year old as she filled a bowl and set it out “just for them.” And by the time I found our older cat (nineteen years old!!) Bonkers in the living room, he was covered head to toe with the...
Read MoreRenee Bernard
What in the world is a retired Navy chaplain’s daughter doing writing scorching hot historical romances? Renee Bernard is applying a great education from traveling all over the world to story telling and doing her best to keep her father proud. Truthfully, her father is her number one fan, even though he has sworn never to read a single word of her books (a vow he has kept to this day!) Nothing stops him from telling everyone he knows that his daughter is now a USA Today Bestselling author [Read More]