Mail Call
Something awesome came in the mail on Saturday. Friend and colleague Suzanne Lazear held a birthday contest which I was fortunate enough to win, and I’m now in possession of a nifty prize package chockful of swag and a copy of Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers! If that wasn’t enough, something awesome came by email [...]
Movin’ on up!
Some of you playing along at home may recall that Without the Walls was supposed to come out in fall of 2012. This is no longer true. It’s now coming out in spring of 2012. Spring. 2012. That’s one year from now. ONE. YEAR. FROM. NOW. Apparently my revisions were so tight that I only [...]
In which I try to seem interesting
9:32: Author questionnaire from Harcourt arrives in my inbox 9:33: Much squeeing as I contemplate the prospect of talking about WTW for pages and pages 9:35: Read the questions in detail. Realize that I’m not very interesting. 9:37: Wonder if I really, truly have to tell them where I went to high school 9:40: Contemplate [...]
Process
So I tricked the writerbrain this morning. By simply opening a new document and skipping the part that hasn’t been working – by just plain ignoring it – I managed four whole pages in an hour. There was a time in my writing life when that would have been impossible. Just skipping ahead, that is. [...]