Authors to Watch features Tuesday Daydreams!

December 6, 2014February 1, 20156 Comments

TDSW Authors to Watch is a great blog run by my good friend Tricia Drammeh that features books and authors of all stripes. Today, she featured Tuesday Daydreams: A Journal in Verse! You can check out her post here.

But she’s not the only one who’s been talking about Tuesday Daydreams lately – Joleene Naylor and DM Yates have, as well. Joleene’s post is here and Donna’s is here.

All three of these ladies are talented authors in their own right and you should be sure to check out their books as well as mine. Tricia’s books include the Spellbringers series and Better Than Perfect, among others. Joleene writes the Amaranthine books, where vampires and glitter don’t mix. DM Yates writes fantasy novels and poetry, and you can find out more about her books here.

Make sure to spread the love, and check out all of these wonderful books today!

Photo 365 #121

December 6, 20146 Comments

Today was a beautiful day to get started on the next chapter in my rewrite of The Price of Mercy.

It was kind of a long day, but at least I got something done while the boys napped.

What did you do today?

Photo Friday: The Twelve Pains of Christmas

December 5, 2014Leave a comment

We’ve been decorating at work today. Each year, we put up two Christmas trees – one in our lobby and one in our entryway. As we were trying to string the lights on the trees this morning, Bob Rivers’ Christmas classic kept running through my head.

Go home, Christmas tree, you’re drunk.

So pretty! 🙂

Luckily, we managed to untangle all the lights, and it was totally worth all the hassle. I mean, even the drunken Christmas tree looks a lot better now than it did this morning. 🙂

Photo 365 #120

December 5, 20144 Comments

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Inside, anyway. Outside, most of the snow has melted and the temperature is hovering just north of freezing.

poinsettia

But inside, we’ve been decorating. And it looks purty.

Do you like to decorate for Christmas?

In other news…

December 4, 2014Leave a comment

…I had a guest post up on the Avid Reader Blog today! I’d have posted about it earlier, but Wi-Fi was not my friend today.

Anyway, if you love all things books, check out Fantasy Angel’s many and varied posts. And if you like my poetry, you can check out my post about what I wanted to write and why I didn’t do it right here.

Okay, now I’m going to go pass out. Nighty-night! 🙂

Photo 365 #119: Road trip!

December 4, 20142 Comments

Seymour and I took a little road trip today, which is why this post didn’t happen sooner. But! We got to see some great urban architecture, including this:

bookstore

This is inside a Barnes & Noble in Rochester, Minnesota. It is the coolest bookstore I’ve ever been in. The building used to be a theater, and the bookstore kept the old marquee and ticket booth. It is absolutely amazing.

Also? They had some pretty amazing notebooks, and I’m in need of a new one… 🙂 Sadly, the notebooks stayed behind. But Christmas is coming… 🙂

Hope you all had an awesome day! Excuse me now while I go pass out.

Photo 365 #118

December 3, 20146 Comments

So how did my meringue cookies turn out? Well…

…om nom nom!

I hopped out of bed bright and early this morning to retrieve them from the oven before Thumper had a chance to go exploring. They looked good, they had a bit of crispness to them as I scraped them from the cookie sheet, and they tasted great. But…

I remember my aunt’s cookies being crispy all the way through. Mine are a little crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside. They taste like marshmallows.

This is not a bad thing, mind you – I adore marshmallows, and have been known to eat them straight out of the bag. But I wanted crispy, meringuey deliciousness, not marshmallows.

*sigh*

I guess that means I need to take another crack at those ice cream cookies next week for the 4-H cookie walk so that I can justify making more meringue cookies with the leftover egg whites. 🙂

Do you do Christmas cookies each year? What are some of your favorite recipes?

Photo 365 #117

December 2, 2014December 3, 2014Leave a comment

Who doesn’t love Christmas cookies? Well, me. At least at the beginning of December, anyway.

My church and my kids’ 4-H club like scheduling their Christmas cookie walks right next to each other. I think last year, they might have been the same weekend, but this year, they’re separated by a week. I’m sure this is completely unintentional, but it makes for a very long day of baking. After all, 27 dozen is a heck of a lot of cookies.

Anyway.

I kind of forgot about the church cookie walk this year, so by the time I found the letter about it, it was too late to just give money and let someone else do the baking. The cookie walk is this Saturday and, since today is the only free day I have between now and then, I decided to get those cookies knocked out bright and early.