I’m exceedingly sad to hear of Sir Terry Pratchett’s passing today. I could rant about the cruelty of Alzheimer’s, to which I lost my step-mother last year, but I’m not going to. I could also go on and on about what I loved about Sir Terry’s books – I’ve selectively read every one he ever […]
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An unsettled breath.
I’m having a strangely, unsettled morning. I was about to post this germ of a thought as a Facebook status update, but I couldn’t seem to articulate it in a couple of sentences, which made me realize it was a blog post. And, yay for that realization! Because I always forget to blog. So … […]
This morning, despite the looming deadlines I’m attempting to tame with schedules and to-do lists, Michael and I took a moment to let the chicks wander out of the run and into the barren, fog enshrouded garden. And each time I started to say that I needed to go back to work I took a […]
I snapped this picture as I was hustling home today after an early morning Pilates session. I forced myself to stop and take multiple shots. To slow down just for a breath and, well, breathe. To try to not think, think, think all the time. For those of you celebrating this weekend – Easter, Passover […]
How about a paperback giveaway and some insight to the story origins of After The Virus? Okay, so I planned to do my very first vlog (video blog) with this giveaway and then figured out that – being rather obsessive about these sorts of things – it would take me DAYS to shoot a vlog. […]
Martial Arts Instructor: “What is the most important step in self defense?” Me:”Running away.” Him: “Close. Confidence.” Me: “That is the exact opposite of running away.” Then he told me I had to do push-ups on my knuckles. Yeah, that didn’t happen.
So I just finished a great Skype chat with Irene Langholm, who is the brilliant artist who has done all the covers for my books. While the chat ended very well – we were discussing the cover for the soon to be released Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic – it started out a little […]
Sometimes I forget what it feels like to be me. I get buried in some physical or … occasionally, emotional pain. Or a cold or illness that only time can heal no matter how much echinacea tea I drink. When like this, it’s as if I can only inch forward … get out of bed, […]
I wrote a pivotal scene of my new work-in-progress, an urban fantasy novel, Cupcakes, Trinkets and Other Deadly Magic, this afternoon while listening to Tegan and Sara’s new single, Closer. I went looking for new music and found this song on iTunes Top 100 (or so) chart. It was just so perfect for my main […]