It ain't Sunday afternoon if I don't post an excerpt from one of my very-not-sunshine-and-bunnies novels, so today, we will see Claudia "go there" with her brother Alex. In her defense, Alex should have thought about that before he accused her of having said too much.

Sunday Storytime: "So why did you have to rub it in her face?"

Also, too, The ( Read more... )

Several days ago I heard about some asshole named Joel Stein showing up in the New York Times and sneering about adults who read YA fiction. I don't even care that much about defending the tastes of adults who read YA (for example, I'm a long-time enthusiast of HP, as I'm sure you all know, and anyone who thinks less of me for that is no one worth ( Read more... )

Sunday Storytime: "My name is Nadia, I was kidnapped."

I seem to have run into a wall where the Wrongness is concerned. I think I'll go write some Book 4 until the Wrongness agrees to cooperate.

I suppose it's fortunate that the restaurant shoe-horned us all out before I had time to get more than a little tipsy, or else I'd have stayed out later and would now be in worse shape.

Unrelated to Storytime, but still amusing: I had fun at the Reason Rally.

This is a very quick snippet from my second novel, User Assembly:

Sunday Storytime: "That can ( Read more... )

Some time ago, I pinned this ridiculous thing on Pinterest as a link to my blog post. I think the caption I put on it makes it clear that I think the sentiments expressed on the graphic are laughable, but I'm not sure if my commenters quite grasped that nuance.

This is the comment I found this morning:

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Sunday Storytime: "There's no need to get that attitude with me, Char."

Also, I have a new author interview, and I've started a new challenge for those who've read my book. 

Laura has posted my new Author Interview, only a day late! In this post, I perform the politician's trick of "pass on the question you asked in favor of the question I wish you'd asked." Also, I use the phrase "honey badger" in a parenthetical remark.

Literary Legs Author Spotlight!

This week's entry is from Fait Accompli, which is basically under one great big trigger warning for the whole book, but this scene, oddly enough, is not triggery. It's just rude.

"Hello, I'm a BG female! It doesn't matter which way I swing!"

Sunday Storytime: Charlinder is a bad influence.

(I am being facetious. But the guy IS prepared to go to some pretty epic lengths to prove that he's right.)

Again, maybe just a teensy trigger warning due to the topics under discussion, such as sexual violence. Here is another passage from the dystopian WIP.

Sunday Storytime: "Of course I know about the tranquilizers!"