Update, Winner Announced: The winner of Tam's book is…..Alexia Stevens! Alexia, I will give your name to Tam and she will make arrangements to get you the book! It is my privilege to introduce you to my wonderful cyber-friend Tam Holland! She and I met on Twitter over a conversation about raisins. Yes, raisins. Rumor […]
I don’t write a lot about social media, but I’m on it all the time and I’m a big believer in its importance to us as writers. It is good for your platform, good for networking, and it is also a lot of fun, too. I can hear you all groaning, but stop, I’m serious–it […]
Yesterday I had jury duty. I resisted, mightily. Perhaps it is because I'm called to serve on jury duty more than anybody else on this planet. This was my third time, and I've gotten excused from service several times before, when my children were little. I know people who have never gotten a summons, ever. […]
I've been on hiatus. Unlike when the television networks do this to one of their shows, this was not actually a planned break, just one of those things that happen once in awhile in the writing life. Last week I moderated a panel at AWP, and as is the case with most conferences, didn't have […]
Twitter is, of course, the social networking rage. Seems like everyone from corporations to small businesses to solopreneurs to politicians are tweeting. And with good reason, I some people find it addictive. There are posts galore on how to best use Twitter to promote yourself or your business, how to not waste time on Twitter, […]
I just found mine. It wasn't really lost, in the sense that it was something I desperately missed. It was more like it was buried under the multitude of interests and ideas that crowd my sometimes-mushy brain (too much going on in there!) It wasn't even something that I felt I needed. The experts, however, […]
It is Thanksgiving Eve here in the states and I, like so many others, have much to be thankful for. Health, family, a career I love, a house that isn’t going into foreclosure, new energy in the country after the elections….I could go on and on. Tonight is a night that many of us are […]
