ETA: It’s Ilona’s birthday! Head on over and wish her a happy one! 🙂 You know, 2009 wasn’t a bad year in a lot of ways, but I’m not sorry to see it go. And part of the reason is… I just didn’t get to many movies. I saw UP, Monsters vs. Aliens (with my […]
Edited to add: Wow, everyone — I can’t believe the response to this post. There were funny comments, touching ones, and just all around…you are all amazing. I wish I had a lot more sets of these to give away. But random.org has spoken. And the winner of the set of books is… LYSSA! Congratulations! […]
When I was in high school, I had the biggest crush on my chemistry teacher. Big enough that I was soooooo going to marry him. Now, picture this. I was a complete and utter friendless dork in junior high. High school wasn’t much better. When my family moved up to Alaska a few years later, […]
I mentioned this week on Facebook and Twitter that I’d caught a few episodes of the A&E show, HOARDERS, which is about men and women who, more than being pack rats, suffer from a psychological inability to let go of items, even if the sheer amount of stuff is threatening the quality of their lives, […]
No, seriously. As everyone who follows me on Twitter probably knows, there’s two things with food that I do well: Wear it and burn it. And my husband is even less skilled than I am (when we got married, I showed him how to make toast) and so between the two of us, our dinners […]
I can’t even remember where now, or why I ran across it, but yesterday I ended up looking at a picture of Melissa Gilbert’s new plastic surgery. And so, like I always do whenever I run across a mention of Melissa Gilbert, I thought: headcheese. I can’t help it. Despite years and years of watching […]
So, a couple of weeks ago I posted two different covers I love, and the history of that. And I realized today while looking back at that, that I never mentioned the artist’s name, just the artist who had influenced me before. Well, I need to remedy that. It’s Cliff Nielsen, and you can find […]
A little over 10 years ago, The Onion had one of their spoof articles, titled: We Can Put a Man on the Moon, But We Can’t Make Killer Robot Police? It was one of those articles that my husband and I still reference now and again, usually whenever some incredible bit of technology is announced. […]
So, it’s Friday again, the day before Halloween. What are you going as? Have any plans? (That’s the content of this post. The rest is just for fun.) A totally un-Halloween related puzzle. provided by flash-gear.com A Halloween Mad Lib Halloween with Odd Shots
No, no, no. This isn’t the post where I tell-all, spilling my dirty fantasies for your prurient enjoyment (or disgust.) This is about me. Dying. Slowly. I am sick. I have been for a week. Blergh. It began with my daughter. She got a fever last weekend. I stayed up all night taking care of […]
One thing that I’ve begun doing lately is making motivational posters for myself. It all started at a guest blog, but now I’m making them all of the time … or taking them from the internet, because that’s faster. But as a writer, I often find myself in need of motivation and inspiration, and one […]
…and another set of links to help you waste time at work get you through your week. We subscribe to The Oregonian at my house, but I rarely get a chance to look at the paper before it heads into my husband’s bathroom with him, never to be seen again (and, really, I’m not too […]
Most of you who follow Ilona’s Kate Daniels series probably know that there has been an increasing level of romantic tension between Kate and Curran, and that there has been a rumor that attraction might be consummated in the next novel, Magic Bleeds. That, of course, presents a challenge for the art department, because no […]
So, when I was sixteen years old, I lived in Anchorage, Alaska, and had a job at Burger King. I totally did the “walking through four feet of snow at 5am to get to work” thing (and I plan to tell my grandkids that it was uphill both ways, but it really was just uphill […]
Every writer I know thinks about book covers A LOT. No wonder, really — a great cover can make a book, a terrible cover can break one. They are supposed to market the book, let the reader know the genre, and be aesthetically pleasing, all at once. And on this blog, where we’ve made fun […]
Once upon a time, I wrote a little book called Demon Bound, which featured a heroine who could communicate with spiders (and who fed them vampire blood, because she’s a nutjob) — and while writing that book, I did a lot of spider research. Not a lot of that research ended up in the book […]