Happy Holidays & a Happy New Year
I hope your holiday season is a happy & healthy one and that your New Year is the same.
Gifts for Readers & Writers
Happy Holidays! If you still haven’t found that perfect gift for your reader or writer, here are some ideas for you: Who could resist a pair of Library Socks from Out of Print? Keep your writer’s feet warm in style with these socks, printed to resemble a library book’s check-out page. They come in a variety of…
Happy Holidays
Hard to believe another year’s almost gone! Hoping your holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, are all happy and that you have a wonderful New Year! I’m spending Christmas Day with my sister and her son (and her dog), then working double-time to finish a few stories before the end of the month. On New Year’s…
Insecure Writer’s Holidays
IWSG December 7 question – It’s holiday time! Are the holidays a time to catch up or fall behind on writer goals? There are a lot of holidays in November and December! Dia de Los Muertes (Day of the Dead), Diwali, Solstice, Armistice (or Remembrance or Veteran’s) Day, Hannukah—and of course, for Americans and Christians,…
Holiday Recipe: Hot Chocolate
For the winter holidays, I found a nice recipe for Crock Pot Hot Chocolate that I’m going to try out for our local writing group’s Christmas party. I’ll probably double it since I’m not sure how many of us are going to be there. This is from a website called The Country Cook. Ingredients Instructions
Thanksgiving & NaNoWriMo
Tomorrow is the American holiday of Thanksgiving, when we celebrate a successful harvest for the first English colony in North America. How do you and your friends/family celebrate? Huge meal? Sports on the TV? Gathering the whole bunch for a big celebration? I usually spend the day with family. For Thanksgiving, we have the traditional…
What I’m Reading: Twisted Luck
Found a new urban fantasy series: Mel Todd’s Twisted Luck series. The first book is called My Luck and is about a young woman whose life is a catastrophe … literally. She has the worst luck, always. In this world, magic exists and mages must be registered, lest they go rogue. Cori must deal with…
What I’m Reading: The World We Make
I love NK Jemisin’s City stories and this new one is not disappointing! I’m only part-way through, but already I’m back in her world, where ordinary humans find themselves functioning as avatars for their home cities. The inter dimensional enemy is back … or rather, never fully left … and New York plus his boroughs…
Insecure Writers & NaNoWriMo!
It’s First Wednesday, and that means a new Insecure Writers’ Support Group post! This month’s question is: November is National Novel Writing Month. Have you ever participated? If not, why not? I have been doing NaNoWriMo since 2011 and have usually managed to “win” (you don’t get any real prizes, just satisfaction at making your…
SCWA Conference Notes
The SCWA Conference is over (sadness) and now that I’m home, I can transcribe some of what I’ve learned for your edification and amusement. I’ll be posting a photo album over on the official website. Friday afternoon I signed up for Leigh Stein’s Tailgate Workshop “How to Pitch Your Book.” Wow, did we learn a…