I finished the first draft of My Sweet Thief and beat my goal by one day. Yeehaw! I’ll take that small victory. I’ve never written a 400 page novel in two months before. Very slow by some authors’ standards, but it was a push for me working writing time in around family, illnesses, car troubles, [...]

I’m doing so well getting my first draft done on MY SWEET THIEF. The climax loomed before me, my heroine has to make a hellish decision, and what happens? In strides this arrogant Englishman who proceeds to tell me that he is supposed to be in this scene. Er, I don’t think so. I ignore [...]

Last week pretty much sucked. My car is on the fritz–think major repair as in the transmission is dying. What a sick helpless feeling! Of course discovering just what was exactly wrong took nearly a week of visits to the mechanic. Kudos to the car guy since he didn’t charge me a red cent for [...]

There are a lot of industry professionals with blogs, and being a blog stalker I’ve visited most of them. Some I check daily because they are so informative. Some are just addictive. I’ve never gotten into the editor blogs, but I found a new one called the Evil Editor that puts a different spin on [...]