Making my Fresh Fiction debut
Good morning! It is a very good morning, even if you’re waking to snow and subzero temperatures. If you are, please stay warm and dry. It’s not exactly warm here in northern Arizona, either. I’m in the mountains, not the Valley of the Sun, where 60 degrees is considered...
Blog hop: My writing process
My name is Arlene Hittle, and I like to laugh. I hope my books make other people laugh, too. The never-ending bundle of energy that is Jamie Raintree recruited me to take part in a blog hop about my writing process. I met Jamie in 2009, when I undertook...
Everywhere but the blog
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter or even Pinterest, you’ve already seen the cover for BEAUTY AND THE BALLPLAYER—probably more than once. However, it recently occurred to me that I have not yet shared it here on the blog. Allow me to remedy that problem, pronto, by introducing...
Declaring my WWF intentions
No, I’m not trying out for the pro wrestling circuit. (They call that the WWE these days, anyway.) The WWF I refer to is the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood‘s famed Winter Writing Festival. Four years ago, the fabulous Rubies decided to organize a writing festival to get us through the...
Did I mention …
I signed my first print autograph recently … and promptly spent the rest of the afternoon dancing in my seat. My coworkers probably thought I had ants in my pants. One of my coworkers bought a copy of DIVA IN THE DUGOUT and brought it to the office for...
Looking back at 2013
I’ve said it before: I’m a writer, not a math whiz. Still, I enjoy looking at my blog statistics. That’s why I look forward to seeing what the WordPress stats helper monkeys come up with every New Year’s Eve. As I look ahead to 2014 (TMP’s releases of BEAUTY...