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February 19, 2012
Takoda by T.M. Hobbs
This was a lovely short historical romance set in old west Wyoming. Sarah is a young woman who moves to Wyoming with her Aunt and Uncle after her parents were killed by Native Americans. When she gets to Wyoming, things don't go as expected when she gets taken by a young Crow man.
This is a sweet romantic piece, if you are looking for an erotic piece this isn't it, but it is a fun satisfying read. You can get it for .99 at Amazon or at www.bookstogonow.com
February 18, 2012
Trying to get back in the groove
I've been so bad at blogging for the past few months, I just need to get back into the habit of blogging again.
Things are pretty good these days. I'm editing the novel that got dropped and playing around with a new characters. The new ones seem to want to live in New Jersey.
I've been letting my reading back up though I think I'm up to 67 books on the 'to read' pile so that is a little out of control. I need to get back to reading again – I'm only reading about a book a week. Not fast enough to cut down on the pile.
On a health note, I've been havening a pain flare. That just means my pain is about average right now but I'm working on it, with yoga, meditation and now massage therapy. And, of course, the cat purring therapy.
I'm going to try to make a point of having more time on line in the next few months.
Things are pretty good these days. I'm editing the novel that got dropped and playing around with a new characters. The new ones seem to want to live in New Jersey.
I've been letting my reading back up though I think I'm up to 67 books on the 'to read' pile so that is a little out of control. I need to get back to reading again – I'm only reading about a book a week. Not fast enough to cut down on the pile.
On a health note, I've been havening a pain flare. That just means my pain is about average right now but I'm working on it, with yoga, meditation and now massage therapy. And, of course, the cat purring therapy.
I'm going to try to make a point of having more time on line in the next few months.
February 10, 2012
I’m not Pollyanna, but sometimes…
Last night I received an e-mail from my publisher that they were dropping my novel. They had pressed me to send them my rough draft three months early and I did. At that point I totally stopped being comfortable with them. I have a learning disability; I don’t like anyone seeing my first drafts.
I am a little sad I guess. I am angry. But mostly I am feeling a profound relief. I hate that I feel relived over something that should be a negative in my life.
I feel like I will be able to create again and work on the things that have been hanging over my head and maybe even participate in on line activities and get back to reviewing short stories again.
How ‘bout you guys have you ever had something so negative feel so incredibly positive?
I am a little sad I guess. I am angry. But mostly I am feeling a profound relief. I hate that I feel relived over something that should be a negative in my life.
I feel like I will be able to create again and work on the things that have been hanging over my head and maybe even participate in on line activities and get back to reviewing short stories again.
How ‘bout you guys have you ever had something so negative feel so incredibly positive?
I'm not Pollyanna, but sometimes…
Last night I received an e-mail from my publisher that they were dropping my novel. They had pressed me to send them my rough draft three months early and I did. At that point I totally stopped being comfortable with them. I have a learning disability; I don't like anyone seeing my first drafts.
I am a little sad I guess. I am angry. But mostly I am feeling a profound relief. I hate that I feel relived over something that should be a negative in my life.
I feel like I will be able to create again and work on the things that have been hanging over my head and maybe even participate in on line activities and get back to reviewing short stories again.
How 'bout you guys have you ever had something so negative feel so incredibly positive?
I am a little sad I guess. I am angry. But mostly I am feeling a profound relief. I hate that I feel relived over something that should be a negative in my life.
I feel like I will be able to create again and work on the things that have been hanging over my head and maybe even participate in on line activities and get back to reviewing short stories again.
How 'bout you guys have you ever had something so negative feel so incredibly positive?
November 5, 2011
Best books about writing?
My vacation was fun, but not exactly what I had expected. My team (the Boston Bruins) have gone from first to worst. Stanly Cup to bottom of the Eastern Conference. But all good Bostonians know that this is just right and proper. Boston fans have to be in it for the long haul, you have to be in a city that went 89 years without a world series win and 39 without a Stanly Cup. I got to see one win and one loss on my vacation the games were fun.
I only mention that because I write about hockey.
The best book I ever read about writing is a book called "hockey tough" It was written by a sports psychologist who seems to mostly work with NHL and NFL players. I had never thought that sport and writing had a lot in common until I read the book. I think of writing as a solitary pursuit and team sports as – well – team sports. Even though I write about players I'd never really thought of how much time they must spend alone. I knew, intellectually, that most NHL players pretty much spend their afternoons alone, sleeping or playing video games or yoga or what have you. One of my favorite players often does a skating practice in the afternoon, alone.
I guess we all do our important work alone, even when we work in a team.
Hockey Tough talks a lot about persevering and getting yourself through touch spots. It also talks about trusting your support people. And what to do when everything is not going our way.
I'm stuck in the doldrums of the center of my book. The part where it's not exciting anymore. I don't really want to work on it anymore. I will, of course, and I will finish this book. I have time, it's not due to the editor until the beginning of March. Mind you I want to have a first draft done by January 1st to give me time to re-write.
Being in the doldrums makes me think of Hockey Tough. I may do some of the exercises from the book and get back on track.
The best book I've ever read about writing has nothing to do with writing at all. How about you? What is the best book you've ever read about writing, and was it supposed to be about writing?
I only mention that because I write about hockey.
The best book I ever read about writing is a book called "hockey tough" It was written by a sports psychologist who seems to mostly work with NHL and NFL players. I had never thought that sport and writing had a lot in common until I read the book. I think of writing as a solitary pursuit and team sports as – well – team sports. Even though I write about players I'd never really thought of how much time they must spend alone. I knew, intellectually, that most NHL players pretty much spend their afternoons alone, sleeping or playing video games or yoga or what have you. One of my favorite players often does a skating practice in the afternoon, alone.
I guess we all do our important work alone, even when we work in a team.
Hockey Tough talks a lot about persevering and getting yourself through touch spots. It also talks about trusting your support people. And what to do when everything is not going our way.
I'm stuck in the doldrums of the center of my book. The part where it's not exciting anymore. I don't really want to work on it anymore. I will, of course, and I will finish this book. I have time, it's not due to the editor until the beginning of March. Mind you I want to have a first draft done by January 1st to give me time to re-write.
Being in the doldrums makes me think of Hockey Tough. I may do some of the exercises from the book and get back on track.
The best book I've ever read about writing has nothing to do with writing at all. How about you? What is the best book you've ever read about writing, and was it supposed to be about writing?
October 9, 2011
does your writing surprise you?
I never meant to write about hockey. I've written about all sorts of things, fairies, artists a minister that kills demons, but only my hockey stories have really sold.
I am working on my first novel, one that was contracted on the strength of the first 20K words and today I'm wondering why my hockey stories sell and not my stories set in museums or hospitals.
Did I tap into some upcoming genre that I didn't know existed when I wrote my first story about a shape shifting hockey player?
Is there really room for someone who writes 'paranormal sports romance'?
Come to think of it how did I, one of the least romantic people I know, end up writing romances?
I guess part of being a writer is that you get to surprise yourself all the time, and I have certainly surprised myself. The novel I'm working on is not what I have imagined I would write, but that doesn't make me love it less.
How about you? Has your writing life surprised you in any way?
I am working on my first novel, one that was contracted on the strength of the first 20K words and today I'm wondering why my hockey stories sell and not my stories set in museums or hospitals.
Did I tap into some upcoming genre that I didn't know existed when I wrote my first story about a shape shifting hockey player?
Is there really room for someone who writes 'paranormal sports romance'?
Come to think of it how did I, one of the least romantic people I know, end up writing romances?
I guess part of being a writer is that you get to surprise yourself all the time, and I have certainly surprised myself. The novel I'm working on is not what I have imagined I would write, but that doesn't make me love it less.
How about you? Has your writing life surprised you in any way?
September 13, 2011
Sometimes it’s easy
There are some days when the words come easy. My fingers just trip over the keyboard and I love everything that comes out.
Then there are the days when every word is a struggle and I find myself distracted. I know that it is the part of the novel that I am working on. I’ve reached a point where what I am writing is too close. I’ve reached the place where putting it on paper hurts. I hurt for my characters.
So instead of writing I’m watching a hockey game from last season. I’m watching the Stanly Cup finals. I don’t know if I’m hoping that the Bruins will inspire me or if I am procrastinating. The funny thing is I picked a game that my team lost. Well it is what was on.
I still can’t believe the Bruins won the Cup. I was two the last time that happened. One of the players I fell in love with last year is still unsigned and the talk is that the Bruins are shopping him out. I’ll be sad if he goes, but I’ve lost players I’ve loved in the past – it is part of sports. Believe it or not I still follow the guys I like even when they are on teams I hate.
Sometimes the words come easy – like slipping on ice. Sometimes they don’t and then it feels like I’m in waist deep water.
Then there are the days when every word is a struggle and I find myself distracted. I know that it is the part of the novel that I am working on. I’ve reached a point where what I am writing is too close. I’ve reached the place where putting it on paper hurts. I hurt for my characters.
So instead of writing I’m watching a hockey game from last season. I’m watching the Stanly Cup finals. I don’t know if I’m hoping that the Bruins will inspire me or if I am procrastinating. The funny thing is I picked a game that my team lost. Well it is what was on.
I still can’t believe the Bruins won the Cup. I was two the last time that happened. One of the players I fell in love with last year is still unsigned and the talk is that the Bruins are shopping him out. I’ll be sad if he goes, but I’ve lost players I’ve loved in the past – it is part of sports. Believe it or not I still follow the guys I like even when they are on teams I hate.
Sometimes the words come easy – like slipping on ice. Sometimes they don’t and then it feels like I’m in waist deep water.
Sometimes it's easy
There are some days when the words come easy. My fingers just trip over the keyboard and I love everything that comes out.
Then there are the days when every word is a struggle and I find myself distracted. I know that it is the part of the novel that I am working on. I've reached a point where what I am writing is too close. I've reached the place where putting it on paper hurts. I hurt for my characters.
So instead of writing I'm watching a hockey game from last season. I'm watching the Stanly Cup finals. I don't know if I'm hoping that the Bruins will inspire me or if I am procrastinating. The funny thing is I picked a game that my team lost. Well it is what was on.
I still can't believe the Bruins won the Cup. I was two the last time that happened. One of the players I fell in love with last year is still unsigned and the talk is that the Bruins are shopping him out. I'll be sad if he goes, but I've lost players I've loved in the past – it is part of sports. Believe it or not I still follow the guys I like even when they are on teams I hate.
Sometimes the words come easy – like slipping on ice. Sometimes they don't and then it feels like I'm in waist deep water.
Then there are the days when every word is a struggle and I find myself distracted. I know that it is the part of the novel that I am working on. I've reached a point where what I am writing is too close. I've reached the place where putting it on paper hurts. I hurt for my characters.
So instead of writing I'm watching a hockey game from last season. I'm watching the Stanly Cup finals. I don't know if I'm hoping that the Bruins will inspire me or if I am procrastinating. The funny thing is I picked a game that my team lost. Well it is what was on.
I still can't believe the Bruins won the Cup. I was two the last time that happened. One of the players I fell in love with last year is still unsigned and the talk is that the Bruins are shopping him out. I'll be sad if he goes, but I've lost players I've loved in the past – it is part of sports. Believe it or not I still follow the guys I like even when they are on teams I hate.
Sometimes the words come easy – like slipping on ice. Sometimes they don't and then it feels like I'm in waist deep water.
September 11, 2011
OK I'm pimping
I just wanted to let everyone know where they can get my stories.
In my story "Safely Home", included in the anthology Spirit Legends (an anthology of stories about gods, ghosts and what have you) a young woman, the girlfriend of a professional hockey player, sees the pagan gods her boyfriend worships at the last game played in an old rink. I haven't gotten to read the rest of the anthology yet. The link is to buy it is Spirit Ledends
My story "Box of Cows", an e-book from the publisher bookstogonow, is available in two forms, as a standalone and also in an anthology with 3 other stories. "Box of Cows" involves a fairy dealing with escaped cows and a Fairy Queen. It is set on I-95 in Delaware: Single Story,the anthology
"Rebuilding Year" is the first story in a series about a hockey team made up of bouda, or were-hyena, who are at the end of a rebuilding year. How do you rebuild a team made up of were-animals? ( I think that there will be five stories in this series. One should be coming out this fall) Rebuilding Year
Last but not least, I am working on my first full length novel that will be published. It is due for editing on the 7th of March, so I'm guessing it will be ready for publishing about this time next year.
In my story "Safely Home", included in the anthology Spirit Legends (an anthology of stories about gods, ghosts and what have you) a young woman, the girlfriend of a professional hockey player, sees the pagan gods her boyfriend worships at the last game played in an old rink. I haven't gotten to read the rest of the anthology yet. The link is to buy it is Spirit Ledends
My story "Box of Cows", an e-book from the publisher bookstogonow, is available in two forms, as a standalone and also in an anthology with 3 other stories. "Box of Cows" involves a fairy dealing with escaped cows and a Fairy Queen. It is set on I-95 in Delaware: Single Story,the anthology
"Rebuilding Year" is the first story in a series about a hockey team made up of bouda, or were-hyena, who are at the end of a rebuilding year. How do you rebuild a team made up of were-animals? ( I think that there will be five stories in this series. One should be coming out this fall) Rebuilding Year
Last but not least, I am working on my first full length novel that will be published. It is due for editing on the 7th of March, so I'm guessing it will be ready for publishing about this time next year.
August 10, 2011
What is a fandom – what is your fandom?
One of the things that everyone tells you when you start writing (or at the very least when you first publish) is that you should have a 'writer's blog' and on that blog 'fandom' is strictly forbidden. I understand why. We shouldn't let our 'fan fiction' flag fly. Publishers just don't take to writers of fan fiction (or at least they say they don't) but the question is:
What should, or shouldn't be in this blog?
I love several television shows, and I even have participated in fan communities. And, yes, there is fan fiction. I have been at the edges of fan communities based on books as well and there is a bit of fan fiction there as well.
But my question is, what makes a fandom a fandom?
I love hockey. All but one of my published pieces involve hockey. I love the Bruins most of all and then the other 29 teams are in my mind in a sort of matrix of teams.
And, believe it or not there is NHL fan fiction. Not that I've participated in that. I've made my own league, with my own teams and I write my fiction about them.
So the question is; Is being the fan of a sports team being part of a fandom?
What do you think?
And what is your fandom?
What should, or shouldn't be in this blog?
I love several television shows, and I even have participated in fan communities. And, yes, there is fan fiction. I have been at the edges of fan communities based on books as well and there is a bit of fan fiction there as well.
But my question is, what makes a fandom a fandom?
I love hockey. All but one of my published pieces involve hockey. I love the Bruins most of all and then the other 29 teams are in my mind in a sort of matrix of teams.
And, believe it or not there is NHL fan fiction. Not that I've participated in that. I've made my own league, with my own teams and I write my fiction about them.
So the question is; Is being the fan of a sports team being part of a fandom?
What do you think?
And what is your fandom?
