Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

Yesterday we received word that one of our Samhain editors and authors had passed away after suffering a heart attack several days earlier. Teri Smith was only 2 weeks away from the release of her very first book, written with her dear friend and writing partner, Jean Marie Ward. It saddens me that she’ll never [...]

You know you’ve been waiting for them, Brianna’s official 2nd birthday pictures. These are the studio pics, though the effects are all my fiddling, so don’t blame them I cropped and played with what we got on the cd. Clicking on any picture takes you to the larger image. (Teaching Tuesday will be on Wednesday. [...]

To write a check to the vet for a hundred dollars! See, my husband, he’s a wily one. We were just talking the other day about puppies and how I want a puppy. But then again, not really because it’s a lot of work and it ties us to the house more than our two [...]

Dear Brianna, Has it really been two years since we met? Seems like just yesterday when you were “.5″, your name a secret from everyone but me and and your daddy. Like just last night that I couldn’t find a comfortable position to sleep, had seemingly unbearable heartburn and got up every 30 minutes to [...]

I don’t normally do this, but the other day I noticed one of my stats landed on this page. This is actually a page that people land on a couple times a week, when doing Google searches. And in re-reading the post, I was quite amused by it all over again, so I’m reposting it [...]

To go along with my RTB post today, my yay or nay question of the week is about author websites. On RTB, I wondered if an author wishing to be successful in today’s publishing industry needs to be internet savvy. My follow-up question to that post is to ask readers if they utilize author websites?

I wrote a guest column (which is much less stressful than being a regular columnist, lolol) Internet or die…on the midlist?

Thank you to the anonymous stranger who reported to my credit card company that they’d found the credit card I didn’t even know I lost. I appreciate the fact that you didn’t take it shopping since we all know you could have gone to Walmart and had a shopping spree–they don’t really care whose credit [...]

Title: His Majesty’s Dragon Author:Naomi Novik

Aren’t weekends supposed to be relaxing? I think I missed that boat this weekend.