Throwing Curveballs
I plot. I plod. I plea. I plot a lot more than I used to. When I first started writing lengthily- books instead of short stories- I would just go with the flow. Sit there and let it all spill […]
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Bloggery
I’m on copy edit deadline (for Ashes, Ashes) at the moment.This is the final pass before the text gets set, ready for printing.My super editor is on the case. Also a copy editor and another editor.(this is not a photo […]
Pottering
Where did July go?*looks around and peers over shoulder confusedly*I just spent the last three weeks eitherA) sleeping on the floor and spending my days trying to recover feeling in my hands ORB) unpacking about 100 dusty boxes ORC) finding […]
10 Very Nice Things About My New Hometown
1) There is fog and a foghorn. It sounds like a mournful bull lost in the mist. 2) Everyone has a cottage garden that looks wild and natural with lupines, poppies and mallow self-seeding and spilling out onto the sidewalk. […]
Friends
My agent is about to go out with my latest WIP, FIERCE. It’s about 2 punk rock girls in 1983 Northern California. And it’s about art and music and stage-diving and dumpster-diving and skinny-dipping and punk boy guitar players but […]
Hos before Bros
Forgive me for the awful headline but you know that dude-ish phrase “Bros before Hos” meaning that a man should always put his male friends before any lowly woman? It always used to get on my nerves. I was thinking […]
Hardwood Floors
Hardwood floors are wonderful. I had them in my old house, I have them now. They are cool in the summer and warm and glowing in the winter. They feel good against your bare feet. However they are not nice […]
Moi
At a loss for anything to blog about right now… Hello, moving house tomorrow morning! I figured I would turn to the natural subject people rely on when they have nothing interesting to say. The always thrilling and informative subject […]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Did I ever tell you about the time I met David Bowie?Little known facts:He has eyebrowsHe is not 8 feet tallHe has a tribal tattoo on the back of his (I think) right calfAnd he smells absolutely delicious. He lived […]
The Books in between
In between the BOOKS. There are the books.Entire manuscripts completed,and sweated over that for whatever reason, didn’t work.I have four of them.They came between The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton and Ashes, Ashes, and I easily loved them as much […]