RITA ® Award-Winning Author of Fantasy Romance
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David asked me for some “blue-sky” panorama shots for his Catalina Acupuncture website, so I thought I’d share one here. Such amazing skies we have here. (That’s from our front porch, with the corner of our house to the right.)
This week you all get treated to one of my oldest earworms, the song that starts playing in my brain when I encounter the Word-Whore Word of the Week: Ain’t.
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I’m over at Word Whores today, talking about our word of the week (adz) and taking off from there into puzzling over why I don’t like games.
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I’m over at Word-Whores today, launching our 2014 topic calendar and talking about the crucial importance of taking action – on anything at all.
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I’m over at Word Whores this morning, talking about the three things I want to try to improve my writing life in 2014.
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Only three days left in the Big Twelve Days of Gifts Giveaway!
I know everyone is crazy busy, so today is triple your chances to win day! Anyone who comments on Megan Mulry’s very funny post on what the hell colly birds are, or who comments on my Five Golden Rings post, will not only increase their chances to win both of those giveaways, but will get THREE entries for the Grand Prize!
(All of you lucky people who don’t celebrate Christmas and are not covered in flour and Scotch tape? This is an excellent time for you to sneak in and nab the prizes.)
I’m also over at Word Whores today, talking about the greatest influences on my writing in 2013. Yes, I named names!
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The view out our driveway the other day. This seems to be shaping up to be a snowy winter!
I’m over at the Word Whores Holiday Party today, holding forth (a bit drunkenly) on my five most loved and hated words.
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Winter arrived with a vengeance to my high desert home last week, making for gorgeously frosty vistas.
I’m over at Word Whores today, talking about the only way I know for breaking a writer’s slump. It’s terrible advice, really. I won’t blame you a bit if you don’t go look. Seriously.
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I’m over at Word Whores this snowy Sunday, exposing my shameful secret about how I feel about celebrating my writing milestones.
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I’m over at Word Whores today, giving a Power Point presentation to the bordello on my tools for tracking word counts and writing goals. Stop by and comment to get a copy of the presentation and/or my spreadsheet template.
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This weekend, my local RWA chapter, LERA, had our biannual conference. Two of our guests were Jennifer Enderlin, editor for the fabulous Darynda Jones at St. Martins, and NYT Bestselling author Deanna Raybourn. On Friday, Darynda and our two conference organizers, Tammy Baumann and Kari Bovee, made the trip up to Santa Fe. We did lunch and shopping and I got to play tour guide. Such a fun day for me!
You can read more about it, and about what the most difficult part of the story is for me, over at Word Whores today.