Archived Posts from: April, 2006

Taking a Chance, Taking a Break

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I just dropped Murder in the mail. To another agent. Somehow, hope springs eternal in the heart of a writer. Plus, I had contact with him on another matter, and he volunteered his help with my career. Who could turn that down?
I suspect it won’t be something he will want to represent, but [...]

Thawing . . . a bit

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Rachel is still sick; now her third day out of school. Nothing major; no pneumonia threatening on the horizon. It’s just one of her colds, the kind antibiotics won’t help and that take her forever to get over. Even on her drugs she’s congested and exhausted. I look at her, wishing, praying, desparately that I [...]

Frozen

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My mind is empty, as if someone had scooped it clean. I am moving through the world, split, my body doing what needs to be done, my mind disengaged, exhausted, removed. It is the strangest sort of hollowness, where creativity does not exist, emotions slowly dissipate, and I only crave hours and hours of sleep. [...]

My Personal Brand . . . or “what do I want for Christmas every year?…”

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Author Jenn Stark has written a terrific series that discusses the basics and power of developing a personal brand. This is something which I’ve been struggling with for some time.
To follow Ms. Stark’s idea, I would want to start with the idea that I’m a friendly, stubborn redhead who writes romantic suspense. Good. I’d also [...]

Sidetracking

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This is about growing as a writer.
I’ve decided that it is, without a doubt, easier to get published than it is to get an agent.
Now…once upon a time (say, oh, a decade or so ago), I had an agent. A lovely, fabulous woman named Christine Bolley. She signed me on the basis of a project [...]

Storm Photos

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For anyone who was worried about Rach and me during last Friday’s storms, thank you. It was one of the small blessings in my life that I had moved out of the area that was hit only a month before. Traffic in that area was insane after the F3 went through. Rachel would have been [...]

The blog habit…amidst the storms

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No matter how many folks tell me that blogging is essential to my marketing myself and my books, I can’t seem to get into the blog habit. Every time I promise myself that I’ll develop the habit, this is something that doesn’t seem to be in my nature. Which kinda surprises me considering how much [...]