I tried logging into my Google email account tonight, only to be informed that it has been disabled. Of course I filled out the "disabled in error?" form, but until then, my blogger account and my touch of ink gmail account are gone ( Read more... )

So we just had an earthquake, and it went on for a while. My son came running in and said, "In Dragon Ball, Goku is fighting this guy-" and I said, "We just had an earthquake, I thought you were going to talk about the earthquake!" He said, "You can't feel an earthquake when you're eating cheetos!"

Which actually makes sense in our world.

There's something very wrong with the unnamed cryptozoology piece. The fact that it's still unnamed is a big clue to me that there's a problem ( Read more... )

Currently, I'm working on revising my troll wife story. I'm also working on ( Read more... )

(Words, 268)

Dear agent (snip name)

I took stock of my injuries.  I hadn't even been on the job a month and I had 14 bruises, a concussion, multiple cuts and abrasions, a broken bone, and now, a gunshot wound.  Being a Tooth Fairy shouldn't be this hard.So opens my urban fantasy novel, A Troll Wife's Tale ( Read more... )

I have a couple of ideas for query letters. This is my rough draft of query letter 1. (Words, 170 ( Read more... )

I'm one of those people that wakes up at 2am and worries about things. Or even just thinks too much. I very much want to be asleep, and yet there I am, thinking ( Read more... )

I just found a cool website tool, designed to help you keep track of your queries to agents. It's called (not surprisingly) Query Tracker. It's free to join, though of course they're hoping you'll like enough to pay for the premium options ( Read more... )

I must be getting more serious about my book. I've started looking for agents. I'm at the stage where I'm looking at agents blogs and websites, and trying to get a feel for who would like my work and who I'd like to work with. To that end, I'm compiling a list of agent blogs and Live Journals. If you have any you'd like to recommend, feel free. In ( Read more... )

I'm having lots of fun assuring the Thursday night writer's group that all sorts of things have smells. Money, of course. Fear, naturally. (How many times have you heard that "animals can smell fear"?) Last night, my latest foray into the smell of unusual things was hunger ( Read more... )