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Should I Do Rewrites? Or Should I Go To An Adam Lambert Concert?

I say both, although I'll have a lot more fun at one than the other.
Scooter says neither. He votes for nap.
The rewrites are coming along. My editor didn't ask for that much, and what's slowing me down is that I've been rewriting things she didn't mention. As you may recall, from the little I've revealed about Blood Wounds, my heroine, Willa, has two stepsisters. I've been rewriting material about her stepsisters' mother, a character who is never seen in the book, but who certainly has an...

Should I Do Rewrites? Or Should I Look At Pretty Flowers?

Rewrites can wait.
I went yesterday to the St. James Church Goshen Garden tour with my friend Pam, and we had a wonderful time. There were many beautiful private gardens to explore, and a fabulous lunch to devour.
I didn't take any pictures of the lunch, but that was because I was way too hungry to admire it visually (although it was a very pretty buffet with an exceptionally pretty buffet dessert table).
I love flowers and I want to take good pictures of them. It took me a long time to...

Should I Do Rewrites? Or Should I Nap?

Like I had to ask.

Actually, it's the need for rewrites that make me want to nap. I got the edited manuscript and editorial letter for Blood Wounds yesterday at 6 PM, and thinking about making changes (and a rousing 5 AM game of Purr On The Neck) cost me a good night's sleep.

My editor actually wrote the letter (and most likely sent off the manuscript) June 8. In fact, my agent informed me today that she'd gotten a copy of the letter several days ago. I'm loathe to speak badly of UPS, but for w...

Catch Up

The past couple of weeks have been very busy ones, and I've been ignoring many professional (and some personal) obligations. My fantasy for the day is that I'm going to catch up on these things, and I figured I'd start here with bringing you up to date on a variety of stuff.

The look of the blog: I love the way the blog looks now (which doesn't mean it won't get changed at some point), but I don't like how the links look, which is kind of invisible. So just now I went over to the let's change ...

Trailer Park

Much as I love Life As We Knew It (and I do love Life As We Knew It, in its many incarnations), it would be wrong for me to act like I don't love its siblings, The Dead And The Gone and This World We Live In every bit as much.

Fortunately for me, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt loves them all as well, and because of that great love (or for reasons I may never understand) has commissioned a book trailer for the three of them together.

Most likely, you've already seen Part 1, but Parts 2 and 3 should b...

The LAWKI Family Reunion Is Not A Low Key Family Reunion

I got the German audiobook version of Die Welt Wie Wir Sie Kannten yesterday, otherwise known as the German audiobook version of Life As We Knew It. Well, I assume that's what it is, because my German is pretty much limited to Pfeffer and ich bein ein berliner. Although I do understand a bit of the back jacket- Miranda, meteor, and Tsunamis. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine (and quite possibly better).
Never one to pass up an opportunity to reunite family, I invited all the current...

Come Meet The Life As We Knew It Website!

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has created a website for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In. It has links to reviews, to the video trailer, to this very blog (Hi Me!), and to discussion guides for all three books.

I was about to write that I thought it is possibly the most beautiful thing ever, but Scooter just meowed a protest. What a psychic (as well as psycho) cat he is.

All right. The website is the second most beautiful thing ever, and certainly the most beauti...

щастлив May Be Bulgarian For Happy

Of course it may not be, since I don't know any Bulgarian to be sure.

But Bulgarian is now on my list of languages to master, since we sold the Bulgarian and Macedonian Language Rights for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In to IBIS Publishers. Which makes me very whatever that word is up there (Blogspot has gotten extremely cranky about letting me cut and paste, which would make me extremely cranky, except since it hosts me for free, it would be ill mannered o...

In June We Croon A Tune About The Moon

Happy June!

I have very positive feelings about this June. I'll be getting what I'm already calling the What Could I Have Been Thinking gigantic TV tomorrow (the new entertainment center arrived today and already I'm finding it very entertaining). I have two and a quarter Adam Lambert concerts to go to, friends who'll be visiting, a family party to attend, and most likely, rewrites to do.

Okay. I may not have such positive feelings about rewrites.

Also, unless Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is lying ...

Have A Great Long Weekend If You Have A Long Weekend

I never know what to do about Memorial Day. It never feels right to wish people a happy Memorial Day. And there are people who read this blog who don't have Memorial Day for a holiday, or if they do, not necessarily this weekend.

Life is so complex.

Ironically, tonight is my father's Yahrzeit, which is the anniversary on the Jewish lunar calendar of his death. I bought a yahrzeit candle at ShopRite this morning, but the big issue is how to keep Scooter from knocking it over and setting the apar...