Let's Celebrate Life
You get one chance so make it count. 14 years ago I was a 19 year old girl--scared, in pain, and drowning in the fluid that was rapidly filling my lungs. I was in acute heart failure. 14 years ago...
View ArticleMy Bloody Valentine
Of course you're not going to get some love-sick teaser from me today! No, no, no. :-) Actually, I really can't post any kind of kissing scene from PA because that would give away too many things. But,...
View ArticleOh, God, my eyes! My eyes!
I don’t know how many blog posts I’ve read in the course of my writing life that talked about the “right” way to open a book. There isn’t a “right” way. Not really. But there are plenty of wrong ways....
View ArticleUntil then...
I'm taking an internet break from the "real" world aspects. Like FB and Twitter. I don't know for how long, but I need to do it. I am not breaking from Livejournal. LJ doesn't take me into another...
View ArticleFriday Five!
1.I spent my first day of no FB, Twitter, and book forums reading. I worked on my book a lot too. :-) It was fun. And since I talked so little I feel like my life is building a mystery around itself....
View ArticleLife without a kitchen:
Hmm... What can I say but it's a little hard. I probably have tons of tile shopping drama I could fill this page with, but why bother? We found the tile, ordered it, and right now I don't have a...
View ArticleA Moment
My life’s littered with bad moments. Sometimes so many I can’t see through the grime. Some mornings I wake up so sad and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s my dreams. How could I really know the horrors my...
View ArticleA carefully concealed post about the craft of voice
I'm taking the poetry out of love one sad sentence at a time. :-) Yes, I have that goal. Because more often than not love is messy and nobody says the right thing at the most perfect moment. And even...
View ArticleForward
Last night I had intentions to write another post about voice this morning-- a more in-depth post. I'm not feeling it right now though. Hopefully, I'll find the words for it later today. Progress is...
View ArticleFriday Five
1. Lost in my fiction world and remodeling, I completely forgot to pay my internet bill. Okay, actually, that's not true. I tried to pay it last week, but AT&T had major issues with their website...
View ArticleThis week's teaser from "Panthan's Abyss"
The thing I like best about Arial is she lets me explore an old voice that is as deep as it is dark. This taps into my love for purple prose, that I normally can't use in my YA fiction. :-) Cast...
View ArticleUgh. I am so dragging butt this morning.
It's bad, bad, bad. Sorta like some energy-stealing troll snuck in the house last night and carried it all off. I was left a slimy slug and I had much bigger plans for my day.Onward I trudge, and...
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Break time.
I missed onegrapeshy 's Grapemo ending. :-( Sorry. I have a very valid excuse. We were installing our new cabinets and tiling our counter tops. And of course I have pics. Because my mosaic blog needs...
View ArticleIn which I ramble about religion
I've been holding back a soap box regarding tons of outrage over the replaced words in one of the newer versions of the Bible. Put as simply as I can: I teach kids from a KJV because that's all I'm...
View ArticleConfessions of An Almost Loser
My friend Dayvid said something to me a couple weeks ago. He didn’t say it in an endearing way, though if he had it probably wouldn’t have made the impression that it did. No, his tone was full of...
View ArticleFriday Five
1. I climbed in bed last night and turned on my TV. One of my favorite shows happened to be doing an arc where the mom dies of cancer. My heart couldn’t take it. I turned out the lights, my chest a...
View ArticleIf you haven't already noticed...
Okay. I am on an extended blog break. This was not intentional, but my life has taken some twisty turns this past month. (No tornado pun intended) And on that note, we are fine where I'm at. However,...
View ArticleMy letter to you (A Mother's Day Post)
In my mind, Mother’s Day celebrates not only moms, but also womanhood. I’d love to write a letter honoring all the moms across the globe, but I’m a YA author. My true heart will always be with my...
View ArticleLovers' Spats (The Souls of the Fey)
I guess on the outside people always see something different than the true person who is inside. This is also true of couples. I get asked every once in awhile about arguments between my characters....
View ArticleLovers' Spats (Pieces of Me)
Jealousy and the fear and pain of loss. Today's excerpt is from my young adult novel Pieces of Me, which is currently undergoing reconstruction.Characters: Aspen and JasonPast tense told in first...
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