Tag: Check-in

As much as I love my RWA Golden Heart® finaling MS, “Beauty and the Ballplayer,” I’m beginning to think it’s cursed. Longtime readers of this blog will remember that I somehow lost the last 50 or so pages of B&B. It simply was gone from its Word document. Thank...

Okay, not really famous … but my name is listed in the latest issue of RWA’s Romance Writers Report. That’s right. I got the issue that lists all the Golden Heart® and Rita® finalists. There I am, right at the top of the Contemporary Series list. (Note to self:...

Although not much writing got done this week, I’ve been busy doing all the other little things that need to be done before I leave for New York in — gulp — less than a month. Thursday night after work, I designed the business card I’ll be handing out...

My computer was giving me fits Saturday night, so I spent the time I should have been writing today cleaning out my car. What can I say? Procrastination is a disease. 😉 I’m fighting a bigger disease, though. After decluttering my car, I took a bunch of the books...

Just saw a blog post on the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood pointing out that RWA Nationals is only 39 days away. Eeek. Guess I’d better get back to my revisions, eh? And fast! I also need to figure out which workshops I’m attending, and get those pitches polished to a...

While I was checking my blog stats Tuesday morning, I saw a tidbit that made me laugh out loud: Someone found my blog by using the search term “Mr. Happy story ideas.” Since that’s the pet name one of my heroes uses for a certain part of his anatomy,...

You already know I spent my vacation procrastinating. This is what I was avoiding doing: Each one of these colored squares represents a scene in my Golden Heart®-finaling manuscript, “Beauty and the Ballplayer.” The yellow ones are turning points; blue are scenes that can stay the same; pink must...

I believe it was Robert Burns who coined the saying about the best-laid plans of mice and men often going awry. John Steinbeck borrowed part of it for his “Of Mice and Men.” Not that I’m trying to compare myself to these literary greats (yet), but I can definitely...

Too bad it’s not this easy to win the lottery. Wait a minute. Did I just say easy? I’d hardly call three shopping trips in search of the perfect awards ceremony dress easy. On two separate Friday mornings, I hit six stores in Flagstaff. Unfortunately, I didn’t find much...

You read that correctly: I’m proud to be the guest blogger at the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood today. Once you’re done watching the romantic spectacle that is the Royal Wedding, visit me there to debate the qualities of a good hero....