I’m posting about murder over at the Mid-Willamette Valley RWA blog today. Stop by and see how scary I am.… Read more »

Today’s a hard day. We lost our 13 yr old pup – Pumpkin – yesterday. She’d been losing weight steadily for the last month. It was obvious when I came home from San Francisco that something was wrong, painfully obvious when the DH and I got home from Hawaii. We had her in and out at the vet’s, tried different things, but in the end, knew anything we were contemplating doing to prolong her life was for us and not her. She was in liver failure, the doctor suspected it was also cancer. Very hard decision to let her go, … Read more »

I think as writers we all have those days where we feel like we’re running around like crazy people, not doing what we should be doing, not making an impact. Writing’s such a solitary endeavor. Aside from the few conferences we attend, our interaction with other writers happen via the internet or email, brief phone conversations or monthly RWA meetings.

Today is not one of those days. 🙂 Last night was my RWA chapter meeting, and I have to say, we had a great meeting. Great discussions, great turn-out, lots of excitement. As the president, I love it when things … Read more »

Wow, the last month feels like a whirlwind. Thankfully, though, I’m home now from all my trips, re-acclimating to real life (so sad!) and counting down the days until school starts up again (2 weeks…can you tell I’m excited!!!!)

The DH and I had a fabulous time in Hawaii. We stayed in a high-end condo in Waikoloa on the big island, which was absolutely beautiful. No view of the ocean, but it did have a wonderful view of the pool, was close to the King & Queen shopping centers, and was only a 5-10 min. walk to the beach. We … Read more »

I was going to post pics from San Fran today but quickly realized if I posted all of them, this post would never end! So I’m going to do it in sections. These were all taken Wednesday night at the RWA Literacy Signing. 500 published authors all in one room. So much fun.

Me, Pocket author – and PRO mentor of the year (!!!) – Karin Tabke, Kendra Elliot and Joan Swan.

I have so many things to say about RWA National, I just don’t even know where to start. However, instead of blogging about everything all at once – like how fab my editor is, how funny Chris Keesler is, how the two of them bicker back and forth like the characters in my book (maybe why my editor bought the book in the first place?), the lit signing and everyone I met, Cindy Gerard’s new book (which I already fan girl gushed to her via email about this morning – oh, Lord), Leslie Langtry – OMG…hilarious!!!!, the workshops, the … Read more »