Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

I’ve been steadily wearing Josh down on the dog thing, poor guy. After we had to put Oliver to sleep, I had the puppy lust even more. When Oliver was alive, we knew that there was no way we could have a dog, because Oliver was grumpy and mean and hated dogs. It wouldn’t have [...]

Since I can’t get my image browser uploader to work, and I wanted to share what I made for Brianna this weekend, I came up with an alternative: moar funny pictures Meet Mickey (he’s the funny looking one we’re using to torment Max, one of our REAL cats). I made him from a free pointy [...]

Need to strike the words “so” and “totally” from my everyday conversation and typing. I use them a lot. “So” is my favorite sentence starter when I’m typing out a story here on the blog or a message board. Totally is apparently my favorite word just to use in general. I’ve noticed I use it [...]

I wanted to share a post tonight about something I made for Brianna this weekend, but I can’t use the “Image Browser” on my WordPress. I don’t think I’ve tried to use it since I updated, so clearly I did something WRONG. I get a message that says the URL can’t be found. Dammit.

All editors have some funny quirks about things they don’t like to see authors do. I know of one who dislikes the word “suddenly” to start any sentence (I can see her point when it’s done too often) and others who hate dialogue tags of any kind, or any POV switches. Some editor quirks are [...]

I saw this link on another blog yesterday, I think PubRants, and I shared it in my shared items on the sidebar. It’s the blog of Andrew Olmsted, a soldier who fought in Iraq, and who kept a blog. Andrew wrote a post to be posted in the event of his death. Sadly, he was [...]

This post today on the Fictionwise Yahoo group nearly made my eyes bug out of my head. Both that there are publishers out there who are so criminally ripping authors off like this, and that there are people out there who can work a computer but don’t do their research to find out about the [...]

Samhain Publishing is looking for content editors and final line editors. At this time we are searching for motivated individuals interested in working part time (one to two releases a month) as an editor in all genres of romance and erotica. Preference for both positions is given to non-authors or to writers not actively seeking [...]

Bad blogger, I know. I might have mentioned this already, but just after Christmas (right after we sent Brianna to my in-laws, of course) I got sick. I was pretty sick for about four days which not only ruined any plans Josh and I had for our alone time that week (and we had a [...]

My friend Melissa has a photography business. She takes the most amazing pictures, mostly children. She’s holding a contest for her best image of 2007. Now, you know I’ve already seen a few of the mommies begging votes on their blogs (that’s okay, I’d do the same!) but I thought I’d make it interesting and [...]