So whaddya think? Did we need an extra day this February? Or could you just as soon have done without it? Me, I haven’t decided yet. Check back after midnight.
I’ve been ensconced in the writing cave all week, pounding through my latest book, although I got a bit of a slow start, being more than […]

It was like a real-life “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
One whole day wiped clean of all commitments.
It was a snow day! Or, more accurately, an ice day.
When I checked the news at six in the morning last week and realized all normal activities (work, school, karate, etc.) were cancelled, I’d felt […]

If you’re wondering who the above chick is…it’s me. Minus the black gloves, evil medicine dropper, and dark sunglasses you’ve come to expect on Tuesdays here at the Good Girls Kill For Money Club. […]

More and more I find myself stumped for blog topics. Oh, I can think of all kinds of things I want to blog about when I’m nowhere near my laptop — and they aren’t all rants, either — but when I sit down to blog…
So I went prowling the Internet for likely topics, and I […]

Well, not exactly sponsors. Between travel and writing I’m swamped and left with nothing but poetry for you today. .
Words
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ones we do our best,
sometimes they swarm like insects
and leave not a sting but a kiss.
They can be good as fingers.
They can be trusty as the rock
you […]

I am hereby announcing a Snow Day. As I don’t feel much like writing a witty post today, I am giving myself a Snow Day. Reasoning? My imagination has white-out. As this is the case, I figure everything I write today will need wite-out. Therefore, the Snow Day.
You too are […]

P-day is one week away. One week until the backboard, the bibliography, and the process paper are turned in. One week until the school project is finished and the whole family breathes a sigh of relief.
Until the next due date.
You see, we’ve got several long-term projects in the works. There’s something for everyone—history, […]

Recently, I was asked to fill in for the guy who edits my weekly newspaper column. The gig was a presentation in front of the local Phi Beta Kappa association and the stated topic was “journalists who become fiction writers” (much like our own beloved Ms. Bradford). My co-presenter was a very nice college professor […]

It’s goofy, I know, but sometimes when things are going really wrong for me I hear this little cartoon voice going, “It’s the Professor and Rock Bottom!” Yep, adversity has a name. It has two names. And the cartoon voice belongs to Felix the Cat, who was my first and favorite cartoon experience — or […]

Yes, yes, yes, I’ve got Istanbul for you today. But first, something much more important! HUGE congratulations to my wonderful friend, the immensely talented, generous, and all-around lovely J.T. Ellison, for signing a second three book contract with Mira to continue her amazing Taylor Jackson series. Let the list-hitting begin!
Obviously, the drink for today […]