Archived Posts from: November, 2006

Personal vs. Professional

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I started this blog as a professional outlet, to talk about writing in general, my writing specifically, and as an update for my site. Self-promotion. It’s turned, slowly, into a combination of that and a personal outlet. Oddly, that combination has had an odd benefit to me – it’s kept me focused on the writing [...]

Lazy Plans

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I am enjoying “lazy.” I’ve done little today but take care of Rachel, read email and the paper, nap, and play a couple games of solitaire. I have ambitions of being industrious . . . but at 1:30, I’m still sighing and dreaming. I did take out the garbage (the refrigerator was becoming unbearable) and [...]

Thanks and Giving

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Judith’s comment below reminded me that I had planned to make a post prior to Thanksgiving, but time got away from me. My plans, which had be so carefully coordinated, got ripped apart literally at the last minute and I had just a short period of time to pack and get on the road. No [...]

The Shovel’s Back

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Many of you know that my non-Christian fiction is published under a pseudonym, Jamie Summers, which is something I’ve talked about before. This has nothing to do with trying to hide and everything to do with building a brand. I don’t want someone picking up a book with RR on it, expecting a story with [...]

Rant on a View of a Monolith

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Had an intriguing chat Friday morning – WAY too early for normal coherence – with a fellow author about the way Christians are viewed by some folks. Both of us are published in the Christian marketplace, both in fiction as well as nonfiction. I’ve also published quite a lot outside that field. The basis of [...]

On the Heel of the Good News…

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The new editor at Steeple Hill isn’t exactly crazy about Daisy. I sent her the proposal last week, and she looked at it right away (a good sign!), but doesn’t isn’t 100% sold on it. Good news/bad news. Strange ammunition for my decision on which way to take my career. This time last year, the [...]

Shovels Rule

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Women and their shovels…what can I say? Well, I can start by admitting that the idea for the story, now called “A True Friend,” developed from a disturbing dream a dear friend had about one of my exes and me. Her image of me whacking him upside the head with a shovel has lingered long [...]

It’s a Monday

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Well, the lady with the shovel has resolved her dilemma, although not quite in the way either of us expected. I can’t decide if I like it when a story takes over its own writing or not…sometimes it works; sometimes I just have to stop and take stock. Once upon a time, I heard two [...]

PS: Fair warning

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I’m going to update the website soon, so if you get an error code one day, give it a bit of time and try again. The site itself is almost three years old (I’ve grown to hate that picture), and terribly out of date re: the writing.

Working Late

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Once more, the quiet has allowed me to catch my breath and re-focus. I had 30 emails waiting after the last meeting, all with a variety of urgent requests. No work…just answered emails. Sometimes I remember when I had my first email account…believe it or not, it was in the mid-80s, before graphics and IE, [...]