Just wrote a one paragraph pitch for a series idea I had and sent it to an editor at a publisher I've worked with in the past...the editor got right back to me saying the pitch gave her the chills! So I need to write up a full proposal, but I might be looking at my second series. Yippity skippity!

I read a lot of new writer work. Sometimes it's really nice as it reminds me of things I want to do and things I don't want to do. Sometimes it just makes my head hurt. But recently I read yet another story with a problem I see a lot. The "let me tell you all this stuff I know and then I'll start the story" problem ( Read more... )

I was suddenly struck by a nursey rhyme.
Since I'd never sell it anywhere, I dump it here.

tippity-tappity
bippity-bappity
Jenny will dance for the king
And when he has seen her go tippity tap
I know he will make her a queen.

Hmmm...I'm having a bit of problem posting as my posting page seems to have gone wonky. So, this is a bit of a test. I'm not sure if I'm popping this into the correct teeny tiny box. If I manage it, I suppose I'll just have to make my posts in notepad and copy them into Live Journal ( Read more... )

After a year spent feeling a bit limbo-esque as we mostly waited for my husband's broken leg to heal, I have higher aspirations for 2012. So far, I haven't acted on many of them -- but I aspire. I'd like to complete a book that is not work-for-hire and jump back into the horrors of seeking normal commercial publication. You know, the whole long ( Read more... )

I haven't been a little girl for a long, long time. When I was, I lived in a part of the country where bigotry was alive and well. Some bigots were such nice people until you tumbled into discussion of integrating schools, interracial marriage, or having black folks move into your neighborhood. Then things turned nasty. When we make tv shows and ( Read more... )

Another lovely day brightener arrived today -- the gift of music. I tell you, if Holiday Inn corporate just employed more children's writers, they wouldn't be such stinkwads.

Chocolate showed up at my house today to remind me that I have the best writing friends in the world. Everything is easier with chocolate :-)

J

We heard back from Holiday Inn corporate again last night since I had pointed out that the person they said would call/email us to try to "help" didn't call (not that I thought he would ( Read more... )

Over Thanksgiving break, my husband broke his leg. Since then, we've learned that the law in the state where he broke his leg is structured to make it very difficult to force a company to pay the expenses from something like this. Since the hotel wasn't forced to pay -- they chose not to. Even though they had clearly placed tables in the path of a ( Read more... )