Saving Your Sanity

First, I want to wish an incredibly happy book birthday to D.B. Jackson and Kalayna Price for THIEFTAKER and GRAVE MEMORY respectively!  Check out last week’s guest blogs by D.B. Jackson and Kalayna Price (and, of course, I hope you’ll want to check out their new works as well)! Actually blogging on my own blogContinue reading “Saving Your Sanity”

Why I Do What I Do

I get the question in interviews all the time, “How do you do it all?”  They’re talking about agenting, authoring, mothering, wifing…okay, I made up that last word.  The real question is, “How would I stop?”  Here are the hard truths: -Any day I don’t write feels wasted.  It doesn’t matter what else I doContinue reading “Why I Do What I Do”

Book birthdays!

Posting tomorrow’s book birthdays today!  (In reverse order from my last week’s “yay, they’re coming!” sort of post.) BAD BLOOD by Lucienne Diver (Samhain), Latter-Day Olympians, Book 1 Tori Karacis’s family line may trace back to a drunken liaison between the god Pan and one of the immortal gorgons. Or…maybe it’s just coincidence that herContinue reading “Book birthdays!”

Birthdays, book birthdays and tweetables

“Happy Birthday to me, I’m a hundred and three….”  Oh wait, no, no I’m not.  Just feels like that sometimes!  Anyway, I’m taking part of the day to do fun things, like have lunch with the fab Kira Sinclair over in glamorous St. Pete Beach, but before I go, I wanted to leave you withContinue reading “Birthdays, book birthdays and tweetables”

Crazy week and congrats

It’s been a crazy week, which is why it’s been so quiet here on the blog.  All good, just busy, busy, busy.  However, I had to take some time out to blog because some congratulations are very definitely in order. First, huge congrats to Tammy Kaehler, whose debut mystery DEAD MAN’S SWITCH is up forContinue reading “Crazy week and congrats”

Why Your Work Never Gets Read as Quickly as You Want it to

Inspired by my status update this morning on Facebook and Twitter, I thought I’d give you another snapshot into the life of agents and editors, this one about why your work is rarely read as quickly as you like it to be.  I’ll start with some specifics from my own personal experience. I represent fortyContinue reading “Why Your Work Never Gets Read as Quickly as You Want it to”

Interviews

Celebrating the release of Fangtastic this month, I’m doing a round of interviews with the great gals of the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit.  Here are a few to start: B&N: Cover Stories with Melissa Walker Elana Johnson’s blog (where I take a stand on the all important bacon vs. chocolate issue) Jessi Kirby’s blog (wanna seeContinue reading “Interviews”

Anton Strout’s Once & Future Podcast

Pleased to say I’m up on Anton Strout‘s Once & Future Podcast! (And you can comment on the O&FP Facebook page for a chance to win a signed copy of Fangtastic.)  If you’re not following Anton on Twitter and all, you’re missing out on one of the funniest people in the industry.

Today at Bitten by Books

Friday is almost here, and with it the final question that needs to be answered for your name to be in the hat to win the huge grand prize basket from our multi-author event at Bitten by Books with $200 in gift certificates, and worth more than that when you add in books and otherContinue reading “Today at Bitten by Books”