November Contest Live!
This one’s the killer contest I’ve been planning almost since I started the book. Â I managed to lay hands on a reproduction Viking amulet, just like the one Ivar wears […]
2008
Guest Blogging
I’m over at Deadly Vixens today (“We don’t bite…hard”), blogging on how to prepare your life before heading into writing crunches, whether National Novel Writing Month or a deadline dash. […]
Book Alert!
I just received an email from an on-line pal who spotted copies of IMMORTAL WARRIOR in stacks of books about to be shelved in a mall in Michigan. She gets […]
WORD* – Impecunious
*Word of the Random Day So, yesterday I had occasion to go out in the yard (a rare thing when I’m in deadline mode) and discovered a large pool of […]
WORD* – Synergy
*(Word of the Random Day) The term maverick is being bandied about pretty heavily right now, and every time I hear it, I find myself thinking, “Isn’t that a yearling […]
The best $1.90 you'll ever spend.
Swinging way off topic here (do I have a topic?) to do a public service announcement: Last Saturday, while sitting in my car waiting for my daughter to finish a […]
Free at last
Over at Murderati, JT Ellison continues her series, A Virtual Montparnasse, with a long, thoughtful post on the pleasures and perils of the Internet for writers—a common topic on writers’ […]
"With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross"
(quote from Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) Someone on a writers’ loop I belong to recently celebrated finishing a non-fiction contract project. This is one she’d been grinding away […]
Avast ye mateys!
  It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day and  I’m practicing the pirate lingo I learned at the Official ITLAP Website, including the pick-up lines for Lady Pirates (my […]
September Contest now LIVE
I announced this on the front page of the website, but I realized I’d better duplicate the news here so my RSS subscribers can get in on the fun: In anticipation […]