Writing lessons and the writing life
I just got word that Paranormal Romance has selected Gordath Wood as one of its top picks for December. I couldn’t be more pleased. It is so cool to know that I am giving readers a satisfying reading experience and they are enjoying the world and characters I have created.
This is just neat.
Took A and a friend to The Day the Earth Stood Still yesterday. Eh. Not good.
I didn’t think the blog was going to go dark over the holidays but I got so busy I didn’t have time to post (or write). I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. The house is a wreck so my chores for [...]
Thursday I met friends for dinner. These are people who are current or former members of the Slug Tribe, the long-running Austin writer’s group. I haven’t gone in a while but I don’t think it means I won’t ever go again. The group is geared toward beginners, and it’s a great resource, but I’m not [...]
I just wanted to share another review of Gordath Wood. Please note: This was first posted on a site called Gramma’s Reads and can also be seen on Paranormal Romance.
Gordath Wood is just a splendid book! It begins with jumpers (horses that are trained to handle courses with hurdles) and the people who train and care [...]
Brrr….cold. Told K she brought the cold weather with her. This weekend was warm and sunny, and the temperature dropped last night, and now we’re under a freeze warning.
Now, if you are up north, you will laugh. But the problem is this:
No one knows how to drive down here in inclement weather. Not rain, not [...]
I found my phone, so you can stop looking. It’s charging. Can’t wait to see how many messages on it.
I know I titled this one the writer’s life, but there was no writing in it, except for my day job writing. Man, things are rough right now for the truck and bus manufacturing industry. Actually, [...]
And we saw Twilight with her friend R.
It’s good to have her back. The bedroom is filled with her stuff; she showed us her new hockey gear that, as she said, the nuns paid for, and the computer, the phone, etc., have all been taken up with the usual communications. Speaking of phones, if anyone [...]
Obama’s speechwriter did this and not only was it stupid and sexist it was ugly and wrong.
He should no longer have a place working for president-elect Obama.
It’s stupid, sexist bullshit. I HATE that “boys will be boys” attitude. Grow the fuck up, Favreau. Be a man and resign.
Clinton doesn’t deserve this kind of crap. And if [...]
I think wintry mix is my favorite new weather phrase. That and lake effect snow (but I think I like that one only because I don’t have to live in it).
So anyway, winter has come to Austin. There’s a little bit of snow on the deck and the porch swing (also on the grill cover). It [...]
The story is here, but the short version is that she faces foreclosure, her mother has ovarian cancer, and she herself is in bad health.
If you can help, please do — Vera is a fine writer and publisher as well as a community builder in her own right. We crossed paths on the Rumor Mill [...]
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