I am the most incredibly anti-morning person you could ever hope to meet. It takes me hours to fall asleep, even when I’m tired. I hate mornings. I don’t like to get out of bed and I make people suffer for it. And here I am at 5:09 am with a decision to […]

Women’s/Romance
Bestselling author Barbara Delinsky’s FAMILY TREE, for publication in 2007, called “a departure for Delinsky from the romance genre, and a second book a year later, moving to Phyllis Grann at Doubleday, by Amy Berkower at Writers House (NA).
Jaci Burton’s SURVIVING DEMON ISLAND, about a reality show gone awry, where fantasy becomes reality and nothing […]

I can’t bring myself to blog about writing or funny crap today. Not after spending the early morning hours watching Hurricane Katrina coverage. The loss and devastation is horrifying, and yet the recurring thought that has taken up residence in my head is “What the were you doing on the roof […]

The tall kid’s at school!

The Back to School routine wreaks havoc on this family. Because of the husband’s hours, we tend to eat late and go to bed late in the summer, and it’s a shock trying to return to responsible hours. Especially for me as I move almost totally to […]

I got Gena’s Heart of the Dragon and A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu.
I wasn’t going to read this series. I don’t, as a rule, care for multi-author series because I’m compulsive about reading every book in order and sometimes I just don’t want to read certain books or authors. But […]

It’s official! Check out the Knight Agency’s blog for the entire announcement, but here’s my favorite part!
Here’s her deal announcement on Publisher’s Marketplace: Romance/Women’s Fiction—Jaci Burton’s SURVIVING DEMON ISLAND, the story of a reality show gone awry, where fantasy becomes reality and nothing is what it seems, and a second untitled paranormal romance to […]

She lives! Tranny’s in, she fired up, and she’s off the blocks. The husband even took her for a test run. Once we trace out a *cough* slight *cough* grounding issue, she’ll be good to go. I might even get to drive her.
Anyway (lest y’all think I’m just going […]

I’m being neglectful, but I’ve been sick as the proverbial dog for two days now, and I’m totally sapped. (Why is it a dog? Why not sick as a rat or a monkey or a kangaroo?)
So, anyway. For now I’ll share an error message I encountered today. (It was less funny […]

??? — Why did it take me almost a week to figure out that my ‘67 Mustang’s running a ‘66 Falcon tranny? I know that D’s a Falcon and Z’s a Mustang. Hopefully this will make a difference in the nightmare that has been the Great Torque Converter Hunt. The good news—the […]

Over on Romancing the Blog, Tara Gelsomino wrote an interesting post about the new upperbacks. (Which, while they say designed for comfortable reading, actually make my thumb cramp.) I nodded my head along with her, until I came to this bit (bolding for emphasis is mine):
Strike that. It will enable them to BUY […]