It’s Sunday. That means it’s check-in time for the Sweat Challenge. Go over to Alison’s blog for some inspiration. Then stop by the new 70 Days of Sweat Challenge website and let us know how you’re doing. The new site is fabulous, isn’t it? And, no, I had nothing [...]

Each week I read through the check-in/page reports for the Seventy Days of Sweat Challenge at Alison’s blog. This week I’ve seen a bit of panic. Heck, being about six weeks from a book deadline I feel panic. In fact, I’m fully into “what was I thinking” mode. But, you know [...]

It’s check-in day for the Seventy Days of Sweat Challenge. Go on over to Alison’s blog and put down your number. Also check out Larissa’s post on rejection.
Like Larissa, I had manuscripts rejected before I sold. At the time I wrote those manuscripts I thought they were good enough. [...]

The RWA Conference is over for another year. This one went out with a bit of a bang thanks to the change in the publisher requirements but, despite that, proved to be quite fun. I do have some general thoughts I would like to share:
1. I’ve heard the story about the unpublished [...]

The RWA Conference is over for another year. Before I was published, the Conference was about attending workshops, getting the scoop on what publishers were buying, working on craft, meeting new people and attending editor appointments. Last year, which was my first year as a published author, was an odd stuck-in-the-middle time. [...]

Exhaustion is setting in. You’ve been forewarned.
I plan to go into some basic conference observations tomorrow (or whenever I’m home and can again sit up without falling asleep). You know, my general “what the hell were you thinking” list. With my current level of sleep deprivation, it would be far [...]

It’s time to start the next book. Actually, since it’s due on September 15th, it’s probably a little past time to start writing the next book. At least I have plenty of inspiration to get moving. First, there’s the fact I have a book contract and the nice people at Kensington expect [...]

A bunch of us have books under contract with deadlines right around the same time. Some members of that bunch are suffering from…ummm, let’s call them motivational issues. Summer has a habit of doing that sort of thing. So…
I’ve teamed up with Larissa Ione, Stephanie Tyler, Jo Leigh and Alison Kent [...]