I’ll be forgoing the actual question this weekend. My reason for that is here. Instead I’m posting a mock query letter and I hope any authors who stop by will check it out, give a quick comment on what you think works or doesn’t, what’s worked for you, etc.
NOTE: I’m not asking for critique […]

Another foot of snow. That’s one good thing about being on winter break—we’re not getting dinged for yet another snow day.
Scalzi has confessed to having non-earbud-friendly ears. It’s so nice not to be the only person who can’t pull off that hip and sleek earbud look. I have to use full headphones, dammit.
I’ve been following […]

My beloved children are now officially on winter break. It’s only been two hours since the tall one should have been dropped off and one hour for the short one, and I’m already thinking this vacation will have a high attrition rate.
The husband did manage to get me one free day, though. There’s a bike […]

The question for this weekend is…
Would telling my editor where to shove her red pen kill my career? She corrected my grammar and caught my typos and pointed out plot inconsistencies, but then she goes on to “suggest” rewrites that change sentence structure. She likes long flowery sentences and this is a romantic suspense. Another […]

This pie graph goes with column today at Romancing the Blog. Click on the link if you want to see what it’s about.

(Sorry about the fuzziness. At least I think it’s fuzzy. Could be the Sudafed.)

I’ve been walking around like some kind of Cro-Magnon woman this week—hunched over, knuckles dragging, hair that can only be described as holy crap, wtf happened to you?, although I’m not sure if our prehistoric ancestors had this much flannel.
Maybe, because the previews for 10,000 B.C. or whatever that’s called, seem to show some nice […]

…and waking up this morning:
1. One of the worst colds I’ve had in recent memory took up residence.
2. One of the cats threw up all over the pages I was editing after I fell asleep with them scattered on the coffee table, no doubt due to the onset of #1. Or maybe it […]

I know I said the Weekend Question would stay at the top til Monday, but comment on my Valenduckie guest post at The Good, The Bad and the Unread and you could win a print copy of either Taming Eliza Jane or The Devlin Group: Adrenaline!

Okay, here we go! The first weekend question. Just as a reminder, this post will stay at the top through the weekend, and I also wanted to add one thing for any authors who want to chime in. If you know of a blog post or article, either your own or somebody else’s, that you […]