This Thursday Thirteen is dedicated to every writer who’s ever submitted to NY by snail mail and had to make the long, dreaded walk to the mailbox every day for months.

Thirteen things to do while standing at the window, waiting for the mail and dreading the return of the SASE:
1. Run through a […]

Thirteen True Confessions of a Small Screen Addict
1. My family recently started watching America’s Got Talent and…I’m starting to find The Hoff a little bit sexy. (Highlight to bear witness to my secret shame.) I know. There should be some kind of scarlet letter for that particular crime. I take comfort, however, in the […]

Thirteen Reasons You Should Go Buy Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian RIGHT NOW:
1. All the lush texture and emotional depth we loved in her Tina St. John historicals…it’s all there!
2. Lucan
3. Holy hot & bothered, Batman! That cover would seriously improve ANY decor. Gorgeous!
4. Dante
5. The vampire mythology—the […]

Thirteen Things I’ve Pondered in the Last 24 Hours:
1. How can such a tiny splinter cause so much pain?
2. Is the pickle scene from Taming Eliza Jane in the wrong place, arc-wise?
3. Holy crap! On the Edge is eligible in the novella category of the RITAs! (It’s just shy of 40k.) […]

Thirteen Answers to the Thirteen Questions You Asked Me Yesterday
1. Why do you drink ice cold coffee when you live in the freakin frozen tundra of New Hampshire? — I always have to have a drink at hand or I feel like I’m dying of thirst. A Dunkin Donuts iced coffee is larger […]

Thirteen things you can do with a printed copy of a negative review:
1. Set it on fire in the driveway. (An obvious one, yes, but a method I’ve used on crappy drafts in the past. I have stopped doing that, but only because the Mustang has a slow gas leak. Wouldn’t that suck?)
2. […]

Thirteen reasons I can’t wait for ATV season to start!
1. Spinning my wheels takes on a whole new meaning when I’m in a mud puddle and my husband’s behind me.
2. No cellphone reception up north where we go. (Downside—no wireless, either.)
3. It’s the one thing we all enjoy as a family.
4. […]

Thirteen Places I’ve Lived (and a milestone or two from each)
1. Wareham, Massachusetts: A milestone? Umm…birth.
2. Witchita Falls, Texas: My uncle threw me into the deep end of the pool to “teach” me to swim, turning a mild fear of water into terror.
3. A couple of towns outside Langley […]

Thirteen Things I Like Close By While I Write
1. A large Dunkin Donuts coffee, cream only
2. My hackeysack
3. Ezmerelda
4. The remote to my CD player
5. My electric pencil sharpener because I like my pencils deadly-sharp, but can’t stand mechanical pencils.
6. My copy of Rodale’s The Synonym Finder
7. A […]

Thirteen Totally Random Things About Me Because I Got Stuck on 9 While Doing Thirteen Bits of Writing Advice I Totally Ignore :
1. I hate gel toothpaste. My mother always said “When you grow up and have your own house, you can buy paste”, and I do. The last day I […]