Archive for March, 2010
One day later…or was it yesterday?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Here’s a lesson I recently learned. Never say Screw the timeline. I’m just going to write and figure it out after…
Therein lies madness. For you. For your editor. Especially if the book takes place over a short period of time. And in the book I’m working on now, though it has a much longer timeline, [...]
Reading Under Pressure
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Recently, my library began offering digital library books through Overdrive. Because I have the nook and had already found success in using the dastardly Adobe Digital Editions to buy Harlequin’s ePub format directly from their ebookstore and move the books to my nook, I rejoiced.
They don’t have a huge selection, but I’m sure they’ll add [...]
Retro Shan: The overuse of TSTL
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Today HelenKay Dimon is guestblogging at Genreality on retiring the term TSTL (Too Stupid To Live). While pondering my thoughts on the subject, I realized I’d already shared my thoughts on TSTL here on my blog, so I dug them out to share them again.
(This blog entry was originally posted on January 28, 2005. [...]
Attention Walmart shoppers…run! Or not.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010I had to run into Walmart this morning because—just before bedtime, naturally—TK told me his fancy graphing calculator thing needed batteries. And, of course, while we have an overabundance of AA, he needed AAA.
So I’ve been shopping at this Walmart a long time. I can tell you precisely how long, as a matter of fact—on [...]
Tuesdays are book buying days
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Every Tuesday brings new book releases! I woke up this morning ridiculously excited to get my hands on Instant Temptation by Jill Shalvis, only to be crushed when I realized I’m a week early. To take the edge off my disappointment, I preordered it, which is something I rarely do with digital books.
FYI, the digital [...]
Eating dust.
Sunday, March 21st, 2010I updated the family ATV blog, with some pictures from yesterday’s ride.
My editing process
Thursday, March 18th, 2010(If you’re my editor, you might want to look away.)
I’m currently doing edits for my June Carina Press release, Exclusively Yours. (I hope to have a blurb soon so I can make a page for it.) So, while I’ve talked about it before, what better time to talk about the editing process than while you’re [...]
The wheels on the truck go round and round
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010But not always in a straight, well-balanced manner, so I was “volunteered” to take the pick-up in for a wheel balancing and front-end alignment. This didn’t exactly break my heart since VIP has a sign advertising free wi-fi and a guilt-free hour of sitting on my butt playing with my iPod Touch isn’t the worst [...]
An update on Mr S
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Since so many of you held my hand through Mr S’s health scare two and a half years ago (and can you believe it’s been two and a half years), I thought I’d share the update.
He had yet another carotid artery ultrasound today. He was having them every three months, and then six months. So [...]











