Posted Apr 21 2011 in Miscellany
A few moments ago, I was asked to stand up in front of forty people at a retirement party tonight and roast Dave, the guest of honor, a man I greatly admire and have worked with for the past ten years. Dave has a unique perspective on life. So unique, I began writing down what […]
Read More...Posted Apr 21 2011 in fiction, What I'm Reading
This month, Book Hungry reviewed THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE, by Jandy Nelson. The book is Jandy’s debut novel and is divided into two parts. In Part One, we’re introduced to Lennon Walker, a seventeen-year-old band geek whose sister, Bailey, recently died a sudden natural death, and the supporting characters – Gram, the grandmother raising Lennon […]
Read More...Posted Apr 14 2011 in fiction, Process
In response to my last blog post, Abby Mumford posted this comment: “I love hearing how your mind works.” And I love hearing people tell me they love hearing how my mind works. ‘Cause that happens ALL THE TIME. </sarcasm> Actually, people do seem interested in how I got the idea for SEND, a story […]
Read More...Posted Apr 11 2011 in Process, Stereotypes in Fiction
You know those t-shirts you can get online with the cutesy slogans, like “Careful or you’ll end up in my next novel” and “I hear imaginary people” or this one, my personal favorite, “Kicking adverbs and takin’ names”? I was exploring Cafe Press today and found this one: “Oh, this is SO going in my […]
Read More...Posted Apr 1 2011 in Miscellany
I have a confession to make… I’m a bit of a practical joker. I like pranks, like unleashing my inner devil. When I was a manager, I used to prank my staff and encourage them to get back at me. It was a great team-building exercise. One of my writers used to keep action figures […]
Read More...Posted Mar 25 2011 in Miscellany
A tweet earlier this week about spending summer days reading, then pretending to be a favorite character zapped me back to my childhood when I used to play Nancy Drew. My mom taught me to read when I was very little, perhaps four, and firmly planted the seed for a life-long love of reading. I […]
Read More...Posted Mar 21 2011 in fiction, Process
This weekend, I had the incredible privilege of meeting author Eloisa James at my local RWA chapter meeting. As she spoke, my mind wandered – not in an Oh-not-another-boring-meeting way- but in a synapses-firing-at-warp-speed way. Eloisa admits she is a pantser not a plotter but likes to truly know her characters before she starts a […]
Read More...Posted Mar 17 2011 in What I'm Reading
Beaver tail, ho! This month, my Bookhungry team reviews Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Romantic comedies typically open with a stock ‘meet-cute’ scene in which hero and heroine exchange their first words. The meet-cute scene is always full of animosity and ends with one or both characters vowing “Not if you were the […]
Read More...Posted Mar 16 2011 in fiction, Stereotypes in Fiction
While waiting for my mother, who was undergoing oral surgery, I spent forty minutes observing the oral surgeon’s office staff working it, if you know what I mean. The staff, all women in their twenties, and probably all intelligent women under usual circumstances, completely dissolved into four giggling, tittering morons in the presence of a good-looking […]
Read More...Posted Mar 8 2011 in fiction
My Google Reader contained a cool link on Monday afternoon. Sean Ferrell, a brilliant author and Twitter pal, posted an essay about the many desks in his life. Sean notes he has a desk at work, a desk at home, but writes his fiction on his lap while riding the subway. I thoroughly enjoyed his […]
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