Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I've been busy working on books in the Spring River Valley series and tweaking the blog/website. For now I don't plan to have two sites, only because website tinkering takes way too much time and I'm not good at it. Once the series goes live, updates will be posted here and my Spring River Valley Page will contain buy links.

The official release of JILTED IN JANUARY is coming up fast! I can't believe a year has gone by since I began working on this series.

Stay tuned for more information [and very possibly a chance to start the series before it's official release date].

In case you hadn't noticed...

I have sneakily added some new pages to my blog. Go ahead - go visit them and find out more about what's coming in 2013. I'll wait right here.

Collections as art

Today I'm over at Knoontime Knitting again talking about how a collection can become a piece of art. Stop by and tell me about what you collect!

Where did September go?

It seems like it was September just a minute ago. I don't know where the time went. I wish I could say I was so busy writing I didn't notice, but I was acutally doing a lot of goofing off. While usually the cold weather energizes me and makes me want to get work done, this year it had the opposite effect. I spent a lot of time just hanging around and feeling bad for not working so hard, but I realize I probably needed the break.

I've written over 200,000 words so far this year - and while I should be dancing for joy at getting so much done, all I saw was how much still wasn't finished.

I'm a little less neurotic now - just a little less and hopefully over the next month or so I'll be completely back on track.

Stay tuned and thanks for sticking with me!

Happy September!

It's been a while, I know...I've been busy writing, writing, writing.

Now that the summer is over and we're back to some kind routine, I'm a little more focused and raring to get even more accomplished. The cooler weather energizes me so hopefully I'll be blogging more, tweeting more and gearing up for my first release in January. Stay tuned for a cover reveal - coming soon!

Solving problems with crafts

My August post is up at Knoontime Knitting - stop by and find out how I problem solve with crochet. I haven't et figured out how to crochet a book - but as soon as I do, I'll let you know.

Pyramid Power!

I finished the April story today. It only took me six months to make this one work. SIX months!

I'm attributing my accomplishment to the power of the pyramids. Last night a friend who'd just returned from a trip to Egypt, brought us these cute little carvings and a little packet of sand from around the pyramids at Giza. [He didn't take the sand himself. Someone collected it for him.]

Today I bought the bottle and the placard charm at JoAnne's. I printed the little sign on my computer and made a little Egyptian display on my curio shelf. Maybe the power of the pyramids boosted my creativity so I could finally finished my draft! [And yes, that's one of my temari in the background.]