This post is chock-full of books!

March 30, 2012May 31, 201214 Comments

Things that gave me a good laugh this morning:

All I want is a library full of books and a prince telling me to pick one*…

*Book, that is. Not monks.

Also:

TC: Mommy, can we go outside to play?
Me: No, it’s all mucky and gross outside.
TP: Can we sit on the porch?
Me: No, you really don’t need to be out there.

Both give me their best pout.

Me: If you really want to go outside, one of you can get the diaper bag and the other can get my computer bag and you can take them out to the van for me.
TC & TP: Okay!

Oh, kids. 🙂

Speaking of kids, Cricket’s new favorite word is book. If all we did all day long was read Clifford’s First Halloween, I think he’d be in heaven. I, on the other hand, have grown quite tired of reading yet again about Clifford going trick-or-treating dressed as a ghost, getting a bath after eating a candy apple, and traipsing around a haunted house stuck in a glove. But this, too, shall pass, and I know from experience that once these days are gone, I’ll miss them terribly. Cricket’s a boy after my own heart. I’ve got a couple of pictures from story time a few days ago that I’ve been meaning to post on Facebook, but I haven’t done it yet. Maybe I’ll get to it over the weekend, if I’m not buried under a mountain of laundry. *sigh*

In other book news, you can now pre-order White Mountain, Book 1 of the Darkling Chronicles by Sophie E. Tallis. The book is set to come out in September from Safkhet Publishing. I predict it’ll sell faster than hot chocolate in a blizzard. 🙂

Also, I think I might have fixed a major plot problem in The Lokana Chronicles. Some more detail was needed in one place and hopefully I’ve fixed it now. I’ve tried twice already; I hope the third time’s the charm. But if it’s not, well, then I’ll just have to put my stubborn nature to good use and make it bend to my will. The Great and Powerful Seymour will yet be pleased. 🙂 I say that only because I think his crit made a lot of sense and I’m determined to tackle the problem head-on. As it says over at der Wendighaus, “Time to load the guns, brew the ink, and get to work because I am a writer and I am done fucking around.”

I think that’s about all I’ve got this gray Friday afternoon. Have a happy weekend!

The Lokana Chronicles (suddenlytheyalldied.com)
Something new! (suddenlytheyalldied.com)
Please, Mom? Just one more? (suddenlytheyalldied.com)
Newsy news (suddenlytheyalldied.com)

Please, Mom? Just one more?

March 27, 201214 Comments

My friend Tara wrote an awesome post today about her favorite childhood books after I mentioned something on Twitter about reading to my kids. Cricket and Thumper had some lovely story time this morning while drinking their morning milk and it was so much fun. Cricket is just beginning to get interested in books and Thumper…well, he likes to chew on them, same as his big brother. 🙂 This morning’s book of choice (and every other opportunity’s book of choice) was Clifford’s First Halloween by Norman Bridwell. I loved the Clifford books growing up and I love the show on PBS, too. Same with Arthur – that lovable little aardvark’s adventures with pals Binky, Muffy, and Francine entertained me through many a rainy afternoon growing up. When I was a little older and living with my aunt, the show on PBS entertained my cousin, too. (I, of course, was much too cool for Arthur by then – at 13, it was all about the soaps. Eric Brady, you will forever melt my little fangirl heart.

squee

March 24, 201210 Comments

The e-book version of Tuesday Daydreams is now available for Kindle! You can find it here or by searching for it in the Kindle store. Right now this is as far as I’ll go with the e-book version, but maybe next weekend when I will hopefully have more peace and quiet, I can get it formatted for other e-readers as well. Gretchen, any pointers would be much appreciated! Oh, yeah – I still have to read the Smashwords Style Guide I downloaded. That would probably help. 🙂

Between my excitement over having finally released a title and my fatigue from driving all over two counties today and my frustration with my oldest son, I’m a bit all over the place at the moment. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I see an adult beverage and a scotcheroo with my name on them. Happy weekend!

Someday…

March 20, 2012March 20, 2012Leave a comment

I can’t sleep and it’s driving me bonkers. Also, the pen I’ve been using doesn’t glide very well; it makes my writing look stilted and amateur. The nib keeps digging into the paper, which I find quite annoying because I don’t think I press that hard. Grip, yes. But then I always grip pens hard, so that’s nothing new.

Hmm.

Well, I guess I should try to get some sleep now as it’s after midnight and I do have to work in the morning. *sigh* If only I could pack the kids off to daycare so I could stay home and write. But then, that’s the dream.

Someday…

New year, new posts!

January 9, 2012March 8, 20121 Comment

Hopefully I’ll be better about posting this year. I had hoped to post more in 2011 than I did in 2010, but I’m not sure if I reached that goal or not and I’m too lazy to look it up at the moment, so let’s all just pretend I did and move on. You heard me, move along! Nothing to see here, folks!

Okay, I lied. There’s plenty to see here!

I plan to make a few changes to the site in the coming weeks as my free time allows. Now that I’m working again, free time is once more in limited supply. Still, I’m happy to have my old job back after a rough couple of months at the end of 2011. Things are looking up for me: I’ve submitted three pieces for inclusion in a fantasy anthology with my friends in the Alliance of Worldbuilders, I’m doing a final edit on The Lokana Chronicles with a goal of submitting it to as many places as possible this year, and I’m working on an anthology of poetry plucked from the pages of this here corner of the blogosphere. I’d like to put together an anthology of short stories as well, but I’m not sure about that yet.

In the meantime, I’m going to begin posting links to works by other lovely authors. Karma, you know. Also, they’re some genuinely lovely people who I’d love to help out. Maybe if I ever finish my edits, they’ll be able to do the same for me someday.

And that’s about all the news that’s fit to print. Today, anyway. Happy 2012!