Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/usa/news/article_1364289.php/Virginia_woman_age_75__taking_a_hammer_to_Comcast “What the hell, I’m 75,” said Bristow resident Mona Shaw about heading into the Comcast office in Manassas, Virginia with a hammer and using it on a telephone and computer keyboard, after trying for days to have her phone service connected. Frustrated over lack of customer serivce, Mona Shaw had heard and seen enough [...]

Editing works both the same and differently for me with each book and each author. Some books, I sit down, I read, and the story, the characters, the plot, they all flow. I feel like a failure as an editor because the book required little from me. Of course, every editor wants each book they [...]

I know a lot of people would rather hide the fact that they messed up. But not me, oh noes. I’m all for publicly humiliating myself on my blog Really, I thought some of you might be glad to know that 1) editors aren’t perfect and 2) I in particular have no illusions of being [...]

For some reason, I’ve been having a lot of cravings for rice lately. I’m not sure why. And not just any rice, it has to be sticky rice (like Chinese/Japanese rice) and it’s even better if I can sprinkle it with rice vinegar and wrap it in some nori. Yum. I could eat that every [...]

Won’t my husband be thrilled? I got an email this morning from Sandy at AAR letting me know that the auction for a 30 page critique from me is now live. Starting bid is 9.99 and I’m really hoping I don’t have to send Josh over there to bid on me AAR did a very [...]

This weekend was a busy weekend. Not working. I worked basically not at all, which is a good thing because really, I need to take weekends off so my head doesn’t explode. Friday night we got Brianna dressed in her Halloween costume (she’s going as a witch) and took her to the local zoo, where [...]

One of the moms on my playgroup board posted this. I use Dove products and I’m so happy to support them because they’re constantly doing campaigns like the one below, about young girls and self-esteem. Love it!

My new slideshow on the right? I made it a few days ago and popped it up. It’s a slideshow of all of “my” books currently in print. I did the slideshow through Amazon. It’s kind of fun to see them all there! If you put your cursor on the slideshow, it gives you specific [...]

Great article from Salon on editing. I love these quotes but the whole article is worth reading for authors, editors and those who think they want to be one or the other: Many times over the past 20 years, people have asked me, “What exactly does an editor do?” It’s not an easy question to [...]

No, I’m not dead. I’ve just been focused on not-my-blog. Hopefully I’ll jump back in today or tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m talking about getting personal and rejection letters at Romancing the Blog. With many apologies to non-author/editor types because it is a more industry focused blog post. Next month I’ll do something more general, [...]