I’m Back!

You might have noticed, hopefully, that I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. I’m sorry to say, I ran out of words. Hard to believe, I know. According to my dad, Banana Girl is supposed to run out of words by the time she’s twelve—she my daughter who talks non-stop and is convinced that if she stops talking, she’ll stop breathing. We’ve five months to go, and frankly, I’m not hopeful.

But I’m a writer. I’m not supposed to run out of words! We just don’t do that. Apparently, I do. Or, at least, I ran out of some words.

I’ve spent the past month participating in a 30,000-word challenge (manuscripts only, no blogs) with my local Romance Writers of America chapter. It was fun and exhausting (a bit stressful too, but that could just be me) and I made great progress on two manuscripts. Hopefully, I can keep the momentum going.

In order to participate in this challenge, I sequestered myself in my house for most of the month. I tore up my usual to-do list and put “writing” on the top of the list each day. That meant that all my regular duties, including things for my family, chores around the house, errands and even volunteer work that I do took a back seat to writing. I still got most things done, I just took longer to do them (and some days, my fridge and cupboards were a bit bare). My brainstorming time was filled with ideas for the next thousand words I had to write.

Without any brainstorming time, and without getting out of the house much, my inspiration for my blog suffered a bit.

But now I’m back and while I’ll continue my fiction writing, my blog writing will get back to normal—every Monday. In the meantime, I have an announcement!

My new publisher, Rebel Ink Press, is publishing a cookbook as their 2013 charitable project and I’m in it!

Through the ages food has been seen as a way to commune with others, bringing fellowship to the table while nourishing the body. Food is key in celebration and in honoring. It’s also been commonly widespread everything from asparagus to honey to chocolate and oysters hold aphrodisiacal properties. But we at Rebel Ink Press believe not only is food nourishment for the body and fuel for romance, cooking is one of the sexiest and most nurturing things one can do for another.

It’s the way to the heart.

Rebel Ink Press presents The Way to the Heart, a collection of recipes from twenty-six Rebel writers, our charitable project for 2013. For every copy sold a charitable donation will be made to help nurture families and communities around the world through Heifer International.

Thank you for your purchase. By opening your heart, you’ll find the way to someone else’s.

It’s coming out in paper and e-book on April 17. I hope you’ll check it out!

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