Category: Writing Life

Meeting Blue Balliet was fun, but stressful. It was not HER fault that it was stressful though. Let me explain. The presentation was at Hicklebee’s, and I was presenting the American Revolution for work, at a town 30 minutes away. According to the schedule, I was going to get done JUST IN TIME to pack…

I hereby declare that I WILL have the roundup on time next week! (Which is Tuesday. I know, it’s hard to remember since I’ve been late lately!) This past week I did meet two authors, give out 20 books, (World Book Night!) And got some late birthday presents. Some posts, mostly pictures, will be coming…

Whew. Late again. I’ve been thinking about what I want out of my blog. The first thing I know: I want a new one. My goal is to have that up and running by June. The second thing I know: I want to have more posts, but shorter posts. And maybe think of another way…

Whew! I’m officially in my 30s. I have to say, it’s fun so far. Anyway, let’s do the reading stuff first, shall we? Only 5 books. I KNOW! But I had a pretty busy birthday…week, actually. Here’s what I read: Two GREAT YA novels! The first, Jellicoe Road, recommended by a friend I met at…

  24 books, that’s what we read last week! Ok, to be fair, two were audio books… but still! And A LOT of them were rando’s that I just picked off the shelf at the library! (yes, I could have just said randoms, but rando’s is so much better! I put the apostrophe for pronunciation…

First off, I want to say I’m NOTORIOUS FOR THIS: Starting a project AND NOT finishing it. Apparently it’s a very ARIES thing to do 🙂 I’m getting way better though: I’ve been doing these projects, but just not TELLING you about them! I got the idea to have a “Life Hack” every month in…

11 Books this week. Yeah, can you tell, I’M PROUD! And, exciting news, I got an agent this week! Well, I should say we. Singe Singe likes to THINK he had something to do with it… Anyway I’m letting him do the official video for it, so that should be out soon. And more info,…

Ok, not the BEST week. But I think I got a lot of reading in. This week, 7 books. Yup, just 7. This made me think about my typical day and when I can find time for reading. So here’s the typical weekday: 5:45 Wake up. 6:15 Get in the car and drive to work.…

Oh yeah! 28 books this week! I’m officially back! (or trying to stay busy…more on that later!) Pick up Tia Isa Wants a Car  if you like to read great stories about families. Read The Cazuela That The Farm Maiden Stirred if you like learning Spanish and new recipes. Check out Barnum’s Bones if you…

Hi there. Singe Singe here. As you probably know, Kathy Ellen and I were at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency’s Big Sur conference this weekend. Since Kathy Ellen is too tired, I’ve been asked to fill in and tell you how we had such a great time. Luckily I have photographic proof behind most of…