• Book Ramblings: Week of 6/20/18–Book Reviews and Thrift Store Finds

    Book Ramblings: Week of 6/20/18–Book Reviews and Thrift Store Finds

    I’m a reader. I mean, I. Am. A. Reader. I’ve been that way all my life. Books were my first friends and my close personal relationship with them is the single biggest factor for me becoming a writer. I love to talk about books. Books I love. Books I hate. Books that changed my life.…

  • Query Bingo: For Writers in the Trenches

    Query Bingo: For Writers in the Trenches

    I am currently entrenched in the Dark Twisty Pit of Querying. For those of you that don’t know what querying is, I define it as the following: Querying (verb): The sometimes-painful, sometimes-disappointing, sometimes-exhilarating, and always long process of finding a unicorn-agent. You see, after spending a year or so creating a book-baby through blood, sweat,…

  • Happy Guilt Day: That’s what I’m calling Mother’s Day

    Happy Guilt Day: That’s what I’m calling Mother’s Day

    As Mother’s Day approaches each year, my husband and I have some variation of this conversation: “Why are you laying on the kitchen floor?” He asks. “Because I’m a horrible mother.” Geez, isn’t that obvious? “Okay.” He shrugs and steps over me to get a glass of Dr. Pepper. Okay?  Okay?  What! “Did you even hear…

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