So in the past two weeks I've gotten three emails plus two board comments suggesting that I blog more about the writing and publishing process.

As I said recently to my mentor, melissa_writing, it's great to have somebody hacking a path through the jungle that is publishing, shouting directions over her shoulder. Up to now, this blog has been mostly a way to ( Read more... )

I feel like Theoden, up on the ramparts of Helm's Deep. What is it he says again? "And so it begins ( Read more... )

...that it lasted into March.

Grey, grey, grey, cold, cold, cold.

This is the time of year when I find myself listening to Dar:

And then the snow,
And then the snow came, we were always out shoveling,
And we'd drop to sleep exhausted,
Then we'd wake up, and its snowing...Except that I haven't bothered to shovel the driveway, and it's covered ( Read more... )

The jury members for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and ( Read more... )

Did you realize that Tarzan of the Apes ends in Wisconsin? And that Tarzan doesn't get Jane at the end? He swings through the trees (in the forests of Wisconsin) to save Jane from a forest fire, but Jane's betrothed to John Clayton. He could reveal that he's Lord Greystoke and have Jane for his own, but he doesn't because he's the Noble Savage ( Read more... )

Jeez, I haven't written a word all week, since virtual Lulu's. Been sick, that's part of it. At the mo', I have an earache and can't hear much. An earache! Good grief ( Read more... )

Good morning!

Here's the plan. It's zero degrees outside with a windchill of -18. A very good day to stay inside and write while drinking cup after cup of hot coffee. Usually, on Sunday afternoons, jennreese hosts the virtual Lulu's writing group on her blog, but she's busy with a party and other carousing, so today Lulu's is here ( Read more... )

John is off to a conference in San Jose (I do know the way to San Jose; it's via the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport). He'll be back very late Friday, so until then it's just me, the kids, and my pint of Ben & Jerry's Vermonty Python.

mmmm, the fudge cowsGetting lots of writing done on the novel. Up past 42K. Got some worldbuildy things to ( Read more... )

Thanks to jennreese, I have a new website. It's at sarah-prineas.comIf you've got a minute, would you mind looking it over and telling me what you think ( Read more... )

The setting. A quiet, snowy Saturday night at the Prineas house. John and Sarah sitting on the couch; the kids in bed. Lemon zinger tea has been served ( Read more... )