Happy end of the world! Oh wait … we’re still here… Oh, well, then, I guess I should finish wrapping my Christmas presents. One cool thing that I’m going to be posting on my computer background for the New Year…
Me and my writing life
A blog about books, my ideas and what I've learned as I live life as a writer.
Yearly Archives: 2012
The world didn’t end, so keep writing!
Tagged with: Christmas, K.M. Weiland, New Year, wordplay: helping writers become authors, Writers Resources, writing, writing manifesto
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Author Maria V Snyder blog tour and giveaways
Maria V. Snyder is an author I have read since I was in high school. She’s published a number of books, but my favorites are still her Study series (Poison Study, Magic Study and Fire Study). Turns out, Snyder is doing a blog tour…
Tagged with: books, bookshelf, Fantasy, Fire Study, Magic Study, Maria V Snyder, Poison Study, Scent of Magic
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Writing resolutions for the New Year
The New Year is only a couple of weeks away, (provided, of course, the world doesn’t end) and I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there creating their own New Year’s resolutions. I’m a procrastinator by nature, but I’m…
Tagged with: Health, Holidays, New Year, New Years Resolution, South Dakota, top of my game
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Top Ten Books Santa Could Bring Me for Christmas
Every year, my Christmas list is compiled of books, with a few other things added in. It’s the Christmas season again, and so I have compiled my list of the top 10 books Santa (or my family and friends) could…
Tagged with: Alice Hoffman, Artemis Fowl, Book, Book Thief, casual vacancy, Christmas, christmas list, christopher paolini, Eion Colfer, Elizabeth Kostova, enigma, eva stachniak, Harry Potter, inheritance, Jasper Fforde, Kathy Reichs, Markus Zusak, robert harris, termperance brennan, Thursday Next, top ten list, Vlad the Impaler, winter palace
Posted in My Favorite Things, On My Bookshelf
Posted in My Favorite Things, On My Bookshelf
Review: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Language of Flowers was recommended to me by a coworker, and I bought it a week before my birthday as a birthday present to myself. This is definitely a present of a book; it leaves a message on your…
Tagged with: book review, Elizabeth, Flower, Flower language, Foster care, Victoria, Victorian era
Posted in Book review, Excellent
Posted in Book review, Excellent
Social media success depends on time and effort
This is the first post about my experience reading David Meerman Scott‘s book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR. As I said in November, I am going to post a few different posts about what I learned from reading…
Posted in Intrigues, Writing tips
What’s on my bookshelf? 12-7-12
One of my all-time favorite movies, and books, is The Princess Bride by William Goldman. I thought it would be appropriate to write about this book, since for my birthday a couple weeks ago, my older brother and his wife…
Tagged with: Cary Elwes, Dread Pirate Roberts, Fred Savage, Inigo Montoya, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk, Prince Humperdinck, Princess Bride, Westley, William Goldman
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Add Into Fire
Add Over Water
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