Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

I ran this morning, the second day of the Couch to 5k. I might add a page here so I can track my progress without inundating you all with said progress. Today was somehow not as easy as Day 1, but not terrible. I fear for the next week, when I have to run for [...]

I have two confessions today. One is that I went shopping this morning for pants that I can wear to cocktail parties Monday in NYC. I didn’t find any because I’m TOO SHORT. Kohls is having some great clearance sales and I tried on an embarrassing number of pants but they all were too long [...]

I have a question for all the authors and aspiring authors reading along. When you send in a submission to an editor, is there a period of time that you think an editor responds too quickly? No, don’t laugh, seriously! I’ve been reading a lot of slush submissions recently, trying to find some shorter length [...]

I forgot to share this earlier! Author Marcia James interviewed me for the month of January. Each month she interviews a different industry person with some form of “James” in the name. Check it out here. I love the poster. I’m saving that image!

Car seat covers for Christmas. Josh and I have been car shopping since last February (the first time his car broke down). We were a single car family for about three weeks, which was a lot of fun, let me tell you, since he works 40 miles from home. We shopped around for cars, but [...]

You might be interested in this two part series that Heather from The Galaxy Express is doing on Samhain Publishing and me. Today, Heather has an impressive post up with links to some of my past interviews and quotes from those interviews. She talks about why science fiction/fantasy authors might want to consider a small [...]

  This holiday season, I have teamed up with 38 of the authors whose work I have edited over the past three years. Together, we’ve accumulated a heck of a lot of prizes to give away to all of you. They include: Gift certificates to online stores Books Laptop bag Books Australian gift pack Books [...]

First, let me start by saying that this cover drives me nuts. I can’t seem to remember that Mistborn is the series name, not the book name, because the series name is so huge and the title is so teeny weeny. I’m sure this must have been a marketing decision to get the series name [...]

Brianna and I went out to vote today. At our polling place, it was done on touch screen, so I let her do all the “voting” (and made sure she knew who she was voting for). They gave her a sticker and after we were done, she called Josh and said, “Daddy, I voted for [...]

The Kindles are sitting right here next to me! Did we mention there are two?