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I am super excited to show off the cover for Queen Witch, designed by Tishia Mackey of Paragraphic Designs. Woot, woot! I love it! This cover captures several of the essentials of the Foulweather Twins series — the psychokinetic abilities of the witches (yes, they do fly), Sage’s simultaneous innocence and darkness, and the raw […]
We returned yesterday from our final family vacation of the summer, in Sun River, Oregon. My husband’s mom and a couple of his siblings were there, too. Much fun was had, and the time went incredibly quickly. We already have a cabin reserved for next year, and I’m already looking forward to it. 🙂 With […]
Writers and other creative types, if you’re anything like me, you need to check this out. My husband introduced me to this TED Talk by Susan Cain on The Power of Introverts. He said I had to watch it because she was totally talking about me. I think she’s talking about a lot of us […]
This is my first post in September. So, that’s not awesome. I haven’t known what to say. I’ve also been terrible about making rounds to any of my buddies’ blogs. To be honest, I still don’t feel like posting, but I know I’m going to get an email or two if I don’t pop my […]
Do you ever make yourself cry with something you’re writing? I wrote a scene today that had me bawling. It spilled out really fast — I wrote 550 words in 20 minutes before taking a short break, that was the emotional part, and then came back a while later and wrote another 750 in about […]
Okay, that might be a bit bright. I’m at 22,000 words on my first draft of Descent. So I’m within 10,000 of the novella’s end. This is the point in a manuscript where my writing usually speeds up. If I can get any time to write, that is. 🙂 Anyway, I know how it goes […]
I’m back! It’s been kind of a rocky week. I had a blast on my mini-vacation, with all sorts of fun family activities and a little time for myself, then got back to work for one day before my kids got sick and had to stay home. So now we’re going a bit stir-crazy, but […]
Yay! Another little break from work. This one will be centered around several family members coming into town, most of whom we only see a few times a year. We shall gather at the pool, and over bbq, and hopefully in homes more air-conditioned than ours. Today is our first in a string of a […]
It has been a lovely summer so far. I wish I’d been able to take a little more time off, and of course to have more time to write, but I’m telling you, there’s been lots of good stuff. And we just bought our little one her first school supplies — she starts preschool in […]
The first draft I started last Wednesday is progressing nicely. I’ve met my test mile of at least 500 words each day, and I’m just one hundred words from the cumulative goal of an average of 1,000 a day needed to write this novella during August. Here’s my word count since the last check-in: Wed […]