Posted Nov 19 2010 in Miscellany
A few weeks ago, Twitter sister Jeannie Moon, who works as a school librarian by day, asked me if I’d be interested in letting a few of her students have a go at my YA manuscript, SEND. I leaped at the opportunity to get feedback from my target audience and happily sent SEND (ha). Jeannie […]
Read More...Posted Nov 18 2010 in Miscellany
Book Hungry is at it again. This month’s pick: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, a book about the misadventures of a country vet in Yorkshire, England, set in the forties. The book gets its title from this quote, a hymn actually: All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All […]
Read More...Posted Nov 11 2010 in Miscellany
At almost the half-way point of the insanity that is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I have hit a wall in my project – something that typically happens when I try to write without an outline. What’s different this time is that I MUST push through, tunnel under, or climb over this wall in order […]
Read More...Posted Nov 1 2010 in Miscellany
Today is November 1st. If you’re online, then you know today marks the start of NANOWRIMO, or National Novel Writing Month, a month in which already-crazy writerly types attempt to pen an entire novel (50,000 words) in thirty days. This is my first NANOWRIMO and I’m already frantic. I don’t know what made me sign […]
Read More...Posted Oct 22 2010 in Miscellany
Real life ghost stories! I swear an a bag of Hershey’s Kisses these really happened to me. Tale One: As an Italian American, I would be doomed – DOOMED, I tell you, to eternity in hell’s kitchens, if I ever served spaghetti sauce from a jar. However, I lack a green thumb and after […]
Read More...Posted Oct 21 2010 in fiction, What I'm Reading
This month, Book Hungry selected BEAUTY, A RETELLING OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by Robin McKinley for review. I try hard not to use spoilers in these reviews but find that is impossible in this case. But, since it’s a tale as old as time, maybe you’ll forgive me for it just this once. I […]
Read More...Posted Oct 18 2010
Saturday, I had the honor of touring a local crime lab with the Long Island Romance Writers and I can sum it up in one word – WOW. In one afternoon, I learned everything you ever wanted to know about analyzing a crime scene. And even some stuff you never wanted to know. (Trust me.) […]
Read More...Posted Oct 14 2010 in Miscellany
This morning, just as I settled in to do some virtual computing research, my cell phone rang. It was an automated call from my son’s school district. Before the message abruptly ended, I heard this: “Good morning, parents. This is the school superintendent calling to inform you that we are putting all district schools on […]
Read More...Posted Oct 12 2010 in Miscellany
Birthing a new character, I’ve learned, is a lot like birthing an actual baby. At this point in my life, I’ve created more characters than I have children, so bear with me while I connect the dots. Sometimes, a character pops into my head fully-baked, tap dancing on my skull for his story to be […]
Read More...Posted Oct 11 2010 in Miscellany
The original Star Trek television show is credited with sparking the creative genius behind a number of advances in the technology we’ve seen in our lifetime. Things like the handheld computer, the cell phone, universal translators, even the GPS were all featured in the series in some form or another. For me, the best sci […]
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