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Sweet Saturday Sample

For this week's Sweet Saturday, I've posted another deleted scene from my current release LIFE ON THE EDGE. This scene was part of the first draft of the story before I made a lot of cuts and altered the timeline of events. It takes place a couple of months into Emily and Sergei's relationship.



Afterour morning training sessions, Aubrey, Marley, and I drove to one of our favoritelunch spots near the rink. As we dove into our salads, Aubrey said, "Marleyand I were thinking about doing a...

2012 Nationals - Sunday Events

Sunday brought another early wake-up call because the Friends of Figure Skating breakfast was scheduled for 8:00am at the arena. After mingling with a few skaters, I headed to the concourse to kill time before the second group of men took the ice for their free skate. In that second group, Alex Johnson skated wonderfully, and I attempted to throw a stuffed Smuckers strawberry onto the ice, but it flew sideways and almost hit the IceNetwork commentators. It would've been awesome had it landed ...

2012 Nationals - Saturday Events

My alarm went off early Saturday morning so I could make it to the last free dance warm-up group at the HP Pavillion. After a little blunder where I took the light rail in the wrong direction from the hotel, my friend and I made it to the arena with some time to spare. The top five ice dance teams took the ice and looked sharp in their preparations. My nerves were already buzzing, anticipating the close battle for the third and fourth podium spots.

With an early noon start for the free dance, ...

2012 Nationals - Friday Practices & Events

I apologize again for not being able to timely post photos and reports. I'll start the catch-up with all the Friday events. My day kicked off with a trip to the HP Pavillion for one group of pairs practice, where I saw Marissa Castelli/Simon Shnapir almost land a clean throw triple axel.

After cheering on Marissa and Simon, my friends and I took a quick lunch break before returning to the arena for the short dance warm-up. There were a few near collisions with so many teams on the ice in each ...

Nationals Photos Coming Soon!

I sincerely apologize for the lack of updates since Thursday. The late nights/early morning starts plus sketchy internet service at the hotel have combined to interrupt my regular blogging. I have lots of photos to upload and will hopefully be able to post some tomorrow night. I will have to save the thoughts and impressions of the events for later. There just aren't enough hours in the days at Nationals!

2012 Nationals - Pairs Short Program

Wow! An unexpected turn in the pairs short program this evening! I think everyone was talking about Amanda Evora/Mark Ladwig and Caydee Denney/John Coughlin battling for gold, but Mary Beth Marley/Rockne Brubaker stole the show and rocketed into first place. Their high-energy "Singin in the Rain" program was a definite crowd-pleaser. They looked like they were having an absolute blast through every step of the performance.

Evora/Ladwig are currently in second after a beautiful and elegant perf...

Hello from San Jose!

Just a quick post to start my 2012 Nationals coverage as I've been awake twenty-one hours and am not too coherent right now. First, I have to say the weather here was beautiful today and I think it's going to continue that way for the remainder of the event. Walked around downtown a bit and saw lots of dining options.

I attended ice dance practice at the Sharks Ice rink and was disappointed to find hockey glass and a net around the ice. This means no decent photographs from the practices at th...

Six Sentence Sunday - 1/22/2012

Today is Six Sentence Sunday, where both published and non-published writers share six sentences from their work. I'm sharing an excerpt from my debut novel, LIFE ON THE EDGE, released earlier this month by Astraea Press.

In this week's excerpt, Emily and Chris have just finished their short program warm-up at Skate America, their first international competition of the season.

Time expired, and we followed Sergei backstage to await our turn to skate. On cue, the muscles in my legs twitched...

Sweet Saturday Sample

This is my first time participating in Sweet Saturday, and I've posted a deleted scene from my current release LIFE ON THE EDGE. This scene was part of my very first draft of the story! Emily and Sergei are at a Halloween costume party. Sergei is dressed as a cop and Emily is in a 1940's-style dress.



Aubrey left to find Marley, and I turned to the makeshift bar on the kitchen counter for a soda. The ice chest was almost empty, so I scooted into the smallutility room off the kitchen to get a...

U.S Nationals Nostalgia: Greensboro 2011

We've reached our final stop on the trip down Nationals memory lane - Greensboro 2011. I thought Greensboro was an excellent host with great organization, and I loved the quick and easy flights I took there. The host hotel, the Sheraton, was huge and had a great little cafe for cheap breakfast and lunch. And the cafe was adjacent to the lobby, so it was right in the middle of all the action.

Greensboro also had the best setup of any Nationals as far as practice arenas go. The main arena and th...