My holidays were not especially happy this year. After all this time staying safe, I somehow contracted COVID over the Christmas weekend (started feeling bad Friday night). There went my plans for time with my family, as well as plans for New Year’s Day with friends. We’re hoping to reschedule Friendsmas for this coming weekend…
I hope your holiday season is a happy & healthy one and that your New Year is the same.
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
The SWCA Fall Writer’s Conference starts tomorrow! I will be getting up at Oh-God-Hundred to drive back down to the beach for this. It’s a 4 and 1/2 hour drive so I’ll leave in plenty of time to take breaks and get out to stretch my legs. Also in time to get in line at…
We had a fantastic time at Fiction Addiction Saturday! The book launch was from 2:00 to 4:00 and we had a bunch of friends stop by and pick up copies of the new anthology Carolina Crimes: Rock, Roll, & Ruin. In fact, at the end of the day, there was only a lone copy of…
I’ve been working on stories to submit to various anthologies lately. Here are some of the ones I’ve sent off: Rough Cut Press is doing an anthology on the theme “Exiles,” which, of course, is perfect for a velyr story. I revamped one I’d already finished, cutting about 300 words to make it under 650…