Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

I’m going to tell you something shocking. Are you ready? If you’re sending me a submission or a manuscript, I want you to use spell check. Here’s the thing, a lot is often said about how writers and editors shouldn’t depend on spell check or grammar check. And that is absolutely true. But that doesn’t [...]

I’ve ever received in my inbox. From Hanes it read: Wedgies: The Epidemic Comes to an End Bwahahaha. To make it even better, they have a “Wedgie free website” that’s been specially developed seperate from the Hanes website, which includes “wedgie stories”. Bwahahaha. For those who are curious, they’re advertising a new line of “no [...]

We’ve hired a new content editor and are catching up on submissions, so if you’re thinking to submit, now is a great time. People have been asking about particular genres we’re looking for. One thing I know, we’ve gotten inundated with romantic suspense. If you write romantic suspense, it will need to be pretty great [...]

This might actually be useful for those of you out there wanting to make business cards for the upcoming conference season. I discovered this site, Deyey, via my new favorite site in my RSS feed, MakeUseOf.com. Deyey is a site that will guide you through the process of creating your own business/name cards, and will [...]

I don’t know if I have enough crafters reading this blog to do a fabric swap but I’m dying to do one (because I want someone else to pick out some fabric for me, lol) and I know I don’t know enough local people who do crafts to organize one. Would anyone be interested in [...]

A week ago I finally was able to get Amy Butler’s In Stitches from my local library. I paged through it and immediately saw the pattern for these lounge pants (note, this is the picture from the book)template) and I lost a good half hour because I’m using a new sewing machine and had never [...]

She’s home! Josh and I left this morning to meet my in-laws halfway and fetch Brianna home with them. We had a rather rocky start to the day because we decided to take the dogs with us (since we would be gone all day and had no intention of leaving them outside in the cold [...]

I added some new plugins on Thursday, as I mentioned in a previous test post. Some of them are more obvious than others. The first is RSS Feed Signature Why add this plugin? If you’ve ever seen your blog content show up on one of those “spam” type blogs, this plugin is for you. Essentially, [...]

I added a few new WordPress plugins (I’ll blog about them specifically later) so please excuse this test post.