I find myself feeling more stable of late, physically, mentally and emotionally. Input and output have reached a new level of balance. A resulting side-effect is that I feel less passionate about certain things, but considering that my passion often lacked the maturity necessary to evaluate itself, I judge it acceptable ( Read more... )

The query cycle is underway. In the month since Interphase was completed, we have now received 4 rejections from prospective literary agents. We still have a long list to work through, and time to get our printer up and running. We're starting to learn that this whole writing-and-selling-books business is unbelievably subjective, i.e. it mostly ( Read more... )

It seems that no matter where you look today, people are taking time out of their days just to be cruel to others, people they don't know and will probably never meet. Have we become so mean-spirited in this revolution of free speech, or is it we were always this way, and said revolution coupled with anonymity just brought it to the fore ( Read more... )

Memory flash while on a break at work. It was either 10th or 11th grade in highschool when I had a singularly bad day, a rarity for me, thank goodness. Having lots of keychains on your backpack was popular at that stage of my childhood, particularly ones from Claire's with cutsy sayings on them. Well, on this singularly bad day, some little ( Read more... )

I get that message after a website I have open has been inactive for a certain period of time. With how fractured my day can become, juggling various activities and phonecalls and follow-ups, the message tends to appear a lot ( Read more... )

As is my wont, I've been doing a bit of thinking this past week. It occured to me that once the book goes to print, however long that takes, that people may want to check out the authors' blogs/websites/whatnot. At first I planned to create a new livejournal to represent the persona of Kira Wilson, the author, a carefully controlled and ( Read more... )

"Dear LJ ( Read more... )

"When two hearts race, both win."

Found on a milk chocolate Dove wrapper at work.

Yvette: What is Ron Mazler doing in Joanne Corwin?

Me: *head hits desk, smothering giggles!*

Okay, so the way that sounds is completely NOT what she meant... but did that stop my giggle-fest? Oh no way!

I love Fridays.

WHEEEEE EARTHQUAKE!!!