Cricket loves the green monster hat that Santa brought him last year. He loves it so much that he wore it out and Grandma had to fix it. Now that he’s got it back, he refuses to take it off:
He wants to eat with it on (but we have a no hats at the table rule), bathe with it on, and sleep with it on. It reminds me of the year his godmother bought him a UNI Panthers hat for Christmas; he literally wore it to pieces.
Here’s hoping the monster hat fares better. 🙂
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I’m continuing the Christmas theme today with pictures from the annual Kauffman Christmas. Seymour’s family gets together every year to celebrate with all the aunts, uncles, and cousins, and it’s always a lot of fun. There’s enough food to feed a small army, great conversations on every topic under the sun, and even a visit from Santa Claus. It’s one of the highlights of the year for me because there’s nothing better than spending the holidays with the ones you love. 🙂
How does your family do Christmas?
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Jenny at readsbyredriverbanks asked me to take part in the Writer’s Blog Tour last weekend, and I’ve finally taken a few minutes to sit down and type up a post. I did a post on the same topic back in May, when the ever-lovely Tricia Drammeh asked me to take part. That time I answered the questions with more of a focus on my fiction writing, but this time I decided to focus a bit more on my poetry.
Why do I write what I do?
I write poetry because it’s something I’ve always enjoyed reading. I remember as a kid I spent a whole afternoon in one of the trees out at my grandparents’ place writing poems about my summer vacation as a school project. I used to really like free verse, and sometimes I still write a bit of it, but I’ve found haiku to be an interesting challenge, and it’s really quite satisfying to be able to cram a world of emotion into 17 syllables.
What am I working on?
I’m still working on…
Vegin
Artwork by Hazel Butler
Once again, Michelle Hauck is hosting a blog hop to help authors get their stuff together. This time, though, instead of first page critiques, it’s a query critique! Like my first page, I’m sure that my query needs as much help as it can get, so here it is:
Dear Super Agent:
As the Crown Prince of Lokana, nineteen-year-old Vegin is expected to follow in his father’s corrupt footsteps by marrying a wealthy noblewoman and filling the royal coffers to the brim. But the prince has other ideas, and when he falls in love with a peasant named Lipei, his father threatens to deny him the crown and live forever. Though Vegin knows his father is serious, he insists that he will marry for love or not at all.
But there are bigger problems facing the kingdom than succession.
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!
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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?
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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.
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. 🙂
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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.
But inside, we’ve been decorating. And it looks purty.
Do you like to decorate for Christmas?
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…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! 🙂
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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:
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.
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 