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May 29, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TRISH!!!!
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Today is Trish's birthday. Usually I give her a hottie-filled post, but I was inspired by something on Jaunty Quills the other day, and thought I'd tell you why she's so awesome.
1) She's always there. Okay, almost always. She travels sometimes. But I can always count on an email from her during the day.
2) She is uber talented. Just wait until you get your hands on Winter Longing. You'll be sobbbbbbing!
3) She is super committed. No matter what she's decided...
May 27, 2010
First Lines
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Stealing this idea from Marianne...
First lines from 10 things I've written, published and not:
1) "Kit!" Katherine Barclay straightened from stirring the laundry in the iron pot. She swept loose tendrils of hair back from her face and schooled her features into patience before she turned to her sixteen-year-old sister-in-law. SUNRISE OVER TEXAS, coming from Carina Press in September
2) By the time Mallory Reeves reached the campsite, the sun had set...
May 25, 2010
Things I'm Loving Right Now
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1) The Hunger Games--I'm listening to it on audio and can't listen fast enough!
2) Simply Caramel from Milky Way. I limit myself, but--yum!
3) Playing kickball with my class every afternoon.
4) GLEE and Friday Night Lights.
5) Being done with grading.
What about you?
May 23, 2010
Goals for a DEFINITELY Busier Week
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1) Finish art fact sheet and get to Carina.
2) Mail my contract.
3) Finish and revise short story, due next Tuesday
4) Write synopsis and query for short story
5) Promote promote promote
6) SPN blog
7) Crazy activities at school—teacher vs. 5th grade kickball game, talent show, field day, chill out day (we can bring our electronics). The trick will be keeping them occupied on the other days!
8) Keep up house
9) Exercise
10) Color hair (wish I had the courage to...
May 22, 2010
I Need Your Help!
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My mom and I have this tradition. Every year I compose a countdown list to the end of school. Every day I email her the list. I started with 15 Days Left, 15 Things to Look Forward To. I include different places to go to breakfast, to go shopping, as well as simple pleasures, like eating breakfast on the back patio and taking naps.
Here's the thing. I'm running out of things! I need about 15 more ideas! I think I've included every restaurant that serves...
May 20, 2010
The Ugly Truth
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Yesterday I came home, turned The Ugly Truth on Netflix, and went to sleep on the couch. (I like having a familiar movie on when I sleep on the couch.) When I woke up, the scene where she finds out he's left was on.
Jennifer Crusie's right. It's a terrible movie. She's a shrill heroine, and he's an arrogant SOB. So I wondered what might have made it a better movie, and I thought, "She's the wrong heroine for him."
In the beginning, he's telling women who call in to his show...
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Yesterday I came home, turned The Ugly Truth on Netflix, and went to sleep on the couch. (I like having a familiar movie on when I sleep on the couch.) When I woke up, the scene where she finds out he's left was on.
Jennifer Crusie's right. It's a terrible movie. She's a shrill heroine, and he's an arrogant SOB. So I wondered what might have made it a better movie, and I thought, "She's the wrong heroine for him."
In the beginning, he's telling women who call in to his show...
May 18, 2010
You Make It Look Easy
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I've made all my sales since I've been working at this school, starting in October 2007, when I signed two contracts. I've sold 6 full-length manuscript and 4 novellas. One of the teachers said I made it look easy.
Easy.
Trish said she was making a master submission list of all her projects, which made me curious about my own. My list isn't complete, because it starts in 2002, but I submitted Hot Shot 35 times to publishers and agents before finally...
May 17, 2010
I Haz a Sad
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a baby daddy--with two different women. He has a 4 year old child with one actress and a baby with another (27 year old actress from One Tree Hill.) I don't know why it bothers me, except that it does. It just seems irresponsible and I don't like knowing it. I guess the last I heard about his social life, he was back with Mary Louise, and that doesn't seem that long ago. It was at least a year, I guess, if he has this baby with...
May 16, 2010
Goals for the Week of, Nothing, Really
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This is the week before the week before the last week of school. IOW, the last regular week. Next week we'll have field day and the talent show (though I really wish they'd save all that for the VERY last week. What are we going to do those last four days, I ask you? 14 more days.
1) Finish revisions and send back
2) Newsletter
3) Update website
4) Get back to work on Queen
5) House/exercise
See, nothing, really. I can do...
May 14, 2010
How To Train Your Dragon
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First, I was ready to pull the trigger on buying the airline tickets for our trip to CA for my grandmother's 90th birthday, and the tickets have gone up $40 each! From Thursday morning to Thursday night! ARGH!
Second, we took the kids to see How To Train Your Dragon yesterday. We got to the theater early--they'd planned to show it just to us. The kids bought their snacks (OMG, did this theater make money!) We didn't get the discount we did last year, and it...
