Thanks to a most awesome friend who generously did all the work, the blog is finally upgraded. (I’m embarrassed to admit how out of date my wordpress installation was.)
Yes, it did some funky things to some punctuation, including my excerpts. I’m not going to worry about that tonight, but we’ll get it fixed. (ETA: This [...]

(I’m slammed today, so please forgive another Mini pic. At least she’s cute, right?)
We have this little game we play every school morning. SK, being a typical kid, leaves his toast crusts on the coffee table. Mini goes in her crate while I run him to school (she cries if we don’t put her in [...]

Mini’s back from visiting her groomer, who decked her out in a festive Halloween scarf, and has claimed her spot on the back of the couch, ready for her nap.
Or maybe to look over my shoulder while I write, snickering silently in her little doggy way.

I would like to seal my children in a bubble and then lock them in a bunker in the basement until flu season is over.
We’re kinda/sorta carpooling this year. My neighbors have 2 kids—a 1st grade girl and a 3rd grade boy who’s buddies and classmates with SK. Well, the boy stayed home sick today—fever [...]

Last night I had to sign a permission slip for the Tall Kid. Not for a field trip, but for English class. They’ll be studying Frankenstein by, apparently, watching the 1994 film, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which the teacher referred to as “powerful”.
Okay, it does have an impressive cast: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham [...]

(I’m grinding along under a self-imposed deadline and the project happens to be a reunion/secret baby—because I love me some secret babies—so here’s a post I originally wrote in April of ‘08.)
My unabashed adoration for secret baby romances isn’t something I keep buried behind the bassinet. I’ve even written two of them myself. As a [...]

I’m busy writing. So far this is the first book ever to come to me scene after scene, with no jumping around and writing out of order. Discovering the story this way is a little different and energizing. (Of course, it’s probably because I have no clue about the murderer’s identity or motive, so that [...]

(I’m counting on my younger sisters, especially the youngest (and you know who you are), to be able to keep a secret. Keep in mind the bag of horrible tricks a girl can play on her younger siblings is never empty and has no age limit.)
So we’re getting a Wii for Christmas. :boogie:
It perplexes [...]

I’m having a little…postpartum depression, maybe you could call it, now that No Surrender is behind me. I miss Gallagher already. I love all my heroes, but he’s a little extra special to me and now, after three books, he has to take a step back. DG4 is Jack’s story, and he’ll have Connor O’Brien [...]

Yes, I know my book is being offered free right now, but this is almost certainly the only time my name will ever be in a bestseller list above Dan Brown’s, so you bet your ass I took a screencap.