roseleaf chose these items from my list of interests. I will happily choose from your list for things for you to talk about, if you let me know in the comments you want me to ( Read more... )

I decided my website needed an overhaul, so I migrated over to Wordpress. I'll continue to post here a bit, but for more public info about my writing life or, at the moment, updates on my office renovation, go here.

My agent is currently reviewing my manuscript. That still sounds weird for me to say. Her changes were VERY minor (I'm still stunned at how little she wanted to change and how easy what she did want me to change was to do!), but I have a couple ideas that, while very easy to implement, could have a big impact on the book. Haven't had a chance to ( Read more... )

I can finally go public with this as of last week! I now am represented by The Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency! I found out that they were looking for children's writers via an email from the head of the Children's Lit program at Hollins. I hadn't been sending "Tapestry Threads" out for a long time, mainly because it had gotten so many rejections ( Read more... )

This post has been bouncing around my head for a few days now, but I'm only just now sitting down to write it. Because I'm procrastinating from writing. But I think this is a good wake up exercise, both for me, and my character ( Read more... )

I'm having a serious problem deciding if I should attend my region's SCBWI conference in July. Our region is awesome. Really, really awesome. We have some great speakers this year (although none that I'm seriously ga-ga over; they're great writers, just never happened to write any of my favorite books). The location is great; it's less than ( Read more... )

The ever lovely kathleenfoucart has tagged me in the Lucky 7 game because she knows I've been writing again. While I wish I could post something from what I'm doing currently, it's a work-for-hire and I'm worried it might be bad luck for me to post from it! So here's something from School Spirits ( Read more... )

This blog has really been neglected lately. I won't make any promise about writing more often, because with the Wyrmling and a full-time job, all bets are off. But I had a particularly wonderful weekend that I wanted to write about ( Read more... )

Wrote this post a few days ago, but LJ was being wonky. Trying again ( Read more... )

I'm very guilt-prone when it comes to writing. I saw a good quote not long ago, can't remember who it was from, that said that "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing anything else." These days, every time I do something, I feel like I should be writing ( Read more... )