Leaving on a jet plane

I’ll be gone the rest of the week. I’m grabbing my daughter and heading up to New England for a long weekend with some friends. This will be the first time I’m flying solo with a toddler, so … wish me luck. It’ll be a good early test for the jaunt through Europe [...]

May 25th, 2011 | Category: Me | 11 comments

Just do it!

I’m afraid of the dark. Like for real afraid of the dark. It’s a childhood fear that never really went away, so here I am, a thirty-odd year old woman who gets anxiety in dark places.

So naturally I signed up to do Dining in the Dark. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s [...]

May 23rd, 2011 | Category: Me | 15 comments

Writing Musts

Woot! I’m participating in my first ever Paper Hangover Friday Fives! This week’s topic:

1. Pressure. I’m one of those weirdos who lives for pressure. I thrive on deadlines. If I don’t have a hard and fast end date looming over me, I will languish in 25-words-a-week hell and wonder three years later [...]

May 20th, 2011 | Category: Writing | 9 comments

Tag team, back again

Wow. I’m really sorry for that post title. Really very sorry. If it makes you feel better, I did search through some old pictures looking for a truly ridiculous one of me decked out in full 90s dance recital regalia to match the title, but sadly thankfully the photo I’m thinking of seems to [...]

May 17th, 2011 | Category: Writing | 14 comments

Rec: Nine Days a Queen

I am knee-deep in Tudor history in the moment, a most fascinating time period that I have ZERO interest in living in. Times were hard, yo, especially if you were a member of the nobility. It seems like you had a 1 in 3 chance of being convicted of treason and getting your head [...]

May 11th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Reading | 16 comments

Guest post!

Hey guys! No new post from me today, but I do have a guest post up at Adventures in Children’s Publishing today. Please stop by and take a look!

May 4th, 2011 | Category: Writing | 3 comments

You can’t always be the prom queen

I’ve noticed a lot of posts lately on building a blog and/or Twitter following. A lot of these offer tips, a la “Ten Reasons Why You Didn’t Get a Follow Back.” But missing from every one of these lists (or at least the ones I’ve seen) is what, in my mind, is the [...]

May 2nd, 2011 | Category: Social Media | 18 comments