I’m writing this post from Nashville, where I’ve been since I left home in the wee hours of the morning on Friday. I’m here for the RWA Board of Directors’ meeting. Tomorrow will be Day 3 and another 10 hour day. Yes, I’m a bit tired, but it’s been a great trip in a lot of ways. There is s...
I had a blog all written for today. I wrote it Wednesday, it was about being impatient. It was about me being an instant gratification kind of gal. And while I am, and will most likely always be, the prize I was rewarded with last night at 9:04 p.m. the one I have waited years for, finally arrived...
There are days when you’re killing yourself to get it all done, and you think that if you just keep working harder, you’ll get there, but it piles up as fast as you finish a task. That’s when ya gotta check out, take time off, and just be. It’s...
Ah, Friday the 13th! Be afraid, be very afraid. But why? Well, the number has to do with several events in myth and ancient history...
It’s so good to be home! Earlier this year I was invited by the fabulous Nina Bruhns to teach a couple of classes at the Low Country Romance Writers Retreat. It was an awesome invitation–the kind you can’t refuse, especially considering as a teacher it was all expenses paid! I de...
Dear Thanksgiving Guests, I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to learn that while I was writing seven days a week, trying to meet my deadlines in order to get a paycheck… What? Oh you thought publishers just threw money at me? Like randomly? In big huge chunks? Bwhahahaha!!! So...
Today at my job, I was given an assignment that no one else wanted to do. Being the newest staff member in my department, I had to do it. It wasn’t a HORRIBLE job, mind you, like say, shoveling elephant poop, cleaning out sewers, or keeping the world safe from arachnids, but it wasn’t fun. I...
This entire year seems to have zipped past me at the speed of light. Here we are, November already, and the airwaves are already being blasted with Christmas commercials. What, did somebody suddenly make Thanksgiving an elective? Geez. Time is moving fast enough–give us a break already! ...
I got a D in Chemistry in ninth grade. Let’s just get that out there for the world to know. There didn’t seem to be a thing about this particular science that made sense to my intensely right brained self. O...
There’s candy all over my house. In bowls and bags, in the fridge and freezer, upstairs and downstairs. My kids carried their separate candy stashes around with them all day on Sunday, from room to room, inside and outside. I’m not sure why they do that. Th...
Hi All! The winner from Monday’s post is CATIE JAMES! Catie, email me at Jenniferlyonbooks@gmail.com with your mailing address and how you’d like the book signed. Congratulations!
Literally. I have to unplug every electronic leash attached to me and focus solely on my story right now. I am woefully behind. So, I have elected not to blog about anything today because if I do, I’ll have to come back and chatwhen I must write. I must stave off all distractions. ...
I’d never really been the kind of person who believed in ghosts until I lived with one. Years ago, we bought our first house from the family of a woman who’d died there. Th...
Ghosts, goblins, and ghoulies will out be soon. Not to mention vampires and rock stars, princes, princesses, Jedi warriors and more. Halloween. It’s a fun holiday! It’s a religious holiday! It’s just the scene in Chinatown, it’s both, especially when you slap it all around. For ma...
