Yesterday I read on dearauthor.com that Nora has a bobblehead. Seriously! A Nora Roberts bobblehead.
My initial reaction: Screw the RITA and the NYT, baby. I want a bobblehead!
That was yesterday. My thoughts today: Screw the RITA and the NYT…dude, I want a Shannon Stacey bobblehead! That would be so cool, […]

Is there anything worse than Chapter Three?
I hate chapter three. It’s the bane of my existence. (Well, unless I’m working on the synopsis or the blurb or the cover art form, then they are. Or the first line. Or the last line.) Chapter three’s where the initial burst of inspiration starts […]

We’ve returned! (Unfortunately—I could have stayed another two weeks.) It’ll take me at least a day to get back into the swing of things, so I’ll bore y’all with a few pics from the weekend. (But I’ll put them after the jump so you can skip if you like.) It was […]

See you Monday! Ezmerelda will stop in with a recap next week, assuming I don’t lose her in a mud puddle somewhere.
And my grandfather, who was a Korean War army veteran, passed away this morning. We weren’t close, but it does seem a good time to remind everybody Memorial Day isn’t all about […]

The following conversation took place between the hours of…um, the time I got up and the time I went to bed?
(Speaking of which, thank God “24″ is over for the season. WTF was that? Besides the storyline that made no sense, having Jack Bauer say “I’m at a crossroads”? Gag. Oh, […]

Today’s post is over at Romancing the Blog if you want to check it out!
In other news, here’s a little convo I had with the tall kid yesterday:
The setup: We’re in the Mustang, on our way to pick up the short kid from school. I was aggravated because our genius town personnel and police […]

I wish I could curl up in my bed with my blanket pulled over my head. But…the rest of the world, including our school district, refuses to wait for me. Dammit.
I really, really need the blogging braincell. Whoever has it, if you could just let me borrow it for a little while, that would […]

Ezmerelda’s on vacation, which loosely translates to what the hell did I do with her? I also can’t find my camera’s USB cable, so it’s just not coming together. She might pop in tomorrow, or…she might not, considering she’s in a safe place.
So I guess we know why the rum’s gone, now, huh? Somebody’s […]

Dear Lovely Editor:
I feel a need to explain the presence of the word “wouldirt” in Taming Eliza Jane. I swear I did not type that word. Stop rolling your eyes. See, if I use the stylus to handwrite text on my iPaq, the transcriber function always renders the way I write wouldn’t as wouldirt. […]

So I might be writing the most boring book ever. Or I might not be. It’s hard to tell at the moment.
While skimming scenes looking for the “xx” notations that are shorthand for “I don’t have a clue what goes here”, I noticed my characters are spending a lot of time standing around in […]