Category: My Writing Life

My baby brother got married this weekend in a lovely ceremony.  The reception was a blast.  Man, I haven’t laughed so hard in years.  Even the DJ said we were his most fun crowd.   Of course, sometimes he thought we were cheering over his music choices, but no.  We clapped and yelled every time someone…

This seems to be one of the more popular questions we writers get.  And yet, I’m always surprised. My problem has never been ideas, it’s been time.  I want to live a long, long time (duh–don’t we all?) and partly because I have too many stories to write.  So my recent brain freeze while waiting…

Go See Why!    Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reminder:  I won’t be picking a winner until Sunday, so the Apex Subscription Drive continues!  It really is the best science fiction and horror short story publication, IMO, so it’s worth the 20 bucks.  Plus, you can win one of my cool Snarky items!  See post below for details.

Fun stuff this week!!!  This post will stay up a couple of days and I’ll do the drawing on Sunday. Write Snark readers know I just LOVE Apex Digest!  Jason and I shared space as writers in a horror magazine a couple of years ago and stayed in touch since.  He’s a fantastic editor and…

Thought I’d share some conference seeds, but didn’t want to leave anyone out, so they sprouted.  There is some fun info in here, so read at your leisure. Pictures will come later!  In a post with less words. 😉 I was forced to use one of those disposable cameras–so cross your fingers and hope some of…

I’m headed to the OWFI conference tomorrow.  It’s going to feel weird going, because I truly DON’T have a business reason to go.  I’m no longer looking for an agent and I don’t yet have a book to publicize.  At least that’s what I was thinking.  At first. Nah.  A writer can always learn more. …

My sister ran in the Memorial Marathon yesterday.  It was her first marathon–she did the half, which is 13 miles and her stats were amazing.  1st marathon and she came in 16 out of 397 in her division.  Woohoo!!!!!  I’m so proud of her!  We celebrated last night.  Poor thing was hobbling around my house,…

Rinda has been strangely moody and prone to suffering from broken records playing in her head. My family is having fun with it.  They bring up obnoxious songs on purpose.  (Examples:  Who Let the Dogs Out, Bicycle by Queen, etc.  I’ve been waiting for Muskrat Love and someone is gonna die…) Mostly?  The song has…

I pulled out the white board.  While I’m waiting to hear back on DOTT and BOAA, I’ve been outlining an idea for another series.  Funny enough, the characters in this one are coming from BOAA.  I haven’t yet written the scene, but they showed up in my imagination with a supernatural force-snerk-but seriously, I can…

It was a beautiful weekend and I spent it with family.  This gorgeous guy here–the hubby– –talked me out of my hermit tendencies (what some refer to as writing… 😉  )  so we could spend time outside together.  Went for walks, relaxed on the back porch with our hands over our beverages since the wind…