Ten Things I’d Blog About If I Had Time

This is it.  Butt in chair, hands on keyboard, pedal to the metal.  No more blogging, and no more than 20 minutes per day reading other people’s blogs, until this book is finished and handed in. Topics hover around, though, stacking up like MD80′s over O’Hare, and I need to at least radio out and [...]

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A Very Few Words from Nationals

It’s nearly 10:30 pm here and my brain is pretty frazzled so this will be short and probably only intermittently coherent. Number of budget-friendly tuna sandwiches eaten so far:  two, both eaten by me. Best moment of fangirl bliss so far:  went to a workshop presented by Elizabeth Hoyt this morning.  Not only was she [...]

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One Tourist’s Quest To Get Out Of Disney World Without Buying a Three-Dollar Bottle of Water

When the RWA national conference moved from Nashville to Orlando, my trip suddenly got a whole lot more expensive.  I’m bringing my family, and while they might have amused themselves quietly and economically in the Nashville environs during the days I’ll be busy with the conference, there was just no way to plunk them in [...]

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RWA Nationals, Part One: I check into my hotel

I haven’t left home yet.  But Disney, in their peremptory way, sent me an email suggesting I check in now, through their special online system, which will theoretically secure me the privilege of strolling by the long lobby check-in lines to a special counter where everything will be waiting for me in a splashy Disney-riffic [...]

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My Business Cards, Let Me Show You Them

Among the things I decided I needed for my upcoming first-ever trip to the Romance Writers of America national conference:  business cards! I’ve never had business cards that meant anything to me before.  Technically I have business cards for my day job, though I haven’t had occasion to give a single one out in the [...]

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My Date with Destiny, Deferred Just a Bit

I’ve been saying A Lady Awakened will be out in spring of 2011, but it’s now looking like Bantam will fit my debut into the fall of that year, with, hopefully, the follow-up book (as yet not officially titled) to come a few months later. I’ll be honest:  I did indulge, briefly, in fears that [...]

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