Going along with all my goal talk and organizing speeches, you are probably starting to wonder if I've been snatched by aliens and replaced by a goal striving, neaten up freak. Believe me, I'll be better by February. But in the meantime, and since I have to speak...
Writing
It's That Time of Year Again
So I suppose we have to talk about them. Yes, them. Goals. Everyone gets all goal-this and goal-that the first few weeks of January, sort of like a mini-flu season where you get in this fevered rush for improvement. Of course, being humans we all dive in with this big...
Getting Back to Work
If you are my editor or husband, do us all a favor and skip ahead. The next paragraph probably isn't meant to be read by you. After lolly-gagging around a good part of December, (I told you you'd want skip ahead) I had to get back to work last week and dive back into...
Take My Inspiration, Please
The second question people always ask you after you tell them you are an author (the first being: do you have any books that you've sold) is always: where do you get your ideas. Most of the time, I haven't the vaguest clue where the ideas come from, they sort of sneak...
Meet Laura Lee Guhrke
So Laura (or LLG as she is to be known) is up to her eyeballs in a deadline, but I wanted to do an interview with her since she has a great new book out, Secret Desires of a Gentleman. So instead of bugging her and risking a scud attack from Boise, I decided to just...
Meet Michael Spradlin, YA Wonder
As a mom of boys, I deplore the lack of good fiction written for boys. My son loves to read, but the bulk of fiction out there is aimed square at girls and like most boys he has his own ideas about what makes a good book. So when I found out my good friend, Michael...
