No, I didn’t drop off the face of the earth. I’ve been busy doing edits on My Sweet Thief, and it’s coming along really well. Actually I wasn’t sure but Amy and Karin assure me it’s good, so I’ll take their word for it. Which of course is a huge relief since I have to hand this over to my editor the end of the month.

I also was able to get down the gist of a secondary’s big problem so I could write his story, should my publisher want another story. Yes, I’m being optomistic so I don’t go … Read the rest »

My editor sent me the cover for ONE REAL COWBOY. Woohoo, I love it!!!

And, I have a nice quote from fabu NYT bestselling author Linda Lael Miller. “With a cowboy like this, you can’t lose!” –Linda Lael Miller

I’m doing the happy dance. 🙂… Read the rest »

I’m back from the conference–tired but enthused about this publishing business I love. Pre con I’d been inundated with the downside of the book industry: death of chicklit, tight market getting tighter in general, branding of authors, blurring of lines. Scuttlebutt ran high with midlist authors being dropped, editors switching housing or hanging out an agency shingle, agents firing authors or shutting their doors to all but referred clients.

It’s enough to drive a person to drink.

All the Pens and Needles business cards I left in the goodie room vanished the first day, so if you are interested in … Read the rest »

I’m heading out today to Atlanta for the RWA National Conference. To say I’m excited would be a huge understatement. 🙂 I’m going to meet cyber friends, my editor and my agent for the first time, as well as make new acquaintances and hang with friends I haven’t seen in too long.

If you’re going, please look me up to say, “hey!” Oh, and hit me up for a Write Minded magnet. 😉

Adios!… Read the rest »

There are just so many hours in the day and I need more in order to get through my revisions this week. I’ll come really close, like maybe a hundred pages left to do.

I could have finished MST if I’d have A) locked myself in my office, pulled my modem connection and did nothing but write, write, write, B) not gone shopping for appliances that decided to die off one by one, gone shopping for clothes for conference, and shoes, shoes, shoes, C) not required sleep.

But what’s the fun in that? I’ll take close to done right now, … Read the rest »