2012 - The Year of Win.  This might be the worst title of a blog post ever.  I'm just going to go ahead and apologize for it right off that bat.  But I am not going to change it because a) I am too lazy and b) okay, really it's just that I'm too lazy.  I'd like to pretend I have a second reason, but I don't.   I hate New Year's resolutions, mainly because I don't keep them.  However, for some unknown reason I did make a 2012...

Two steps forward and one step back.  That is what the last few days of working on Awake have felt like. Okay, if I were to be totally honest it has actually felt more like one step forward and two back... I've rewritten the epilogue two full times in the last few days.  I had to email my copy editor and tell him to stop working on chapter seven because I'd changed something at the end and needed to alter that chapter to set up the end. ...

Merry Christmas! It's so easy to get caught up in the business of the season.  The sparkle and the decorations.  The wrapping paper and gifts. The true meaning of Christmas isn't found in all of these glittering trappings, fun though they are, but in a stable. "It seems, then," said Tirian, smiling to himself, "that the stable seen from within and the stable seen from without are two different places." "Yes," said Lord Digory. "Its...

My entire life is running about a week behind at the moment.  Last week was completely consumed by an evil virus that made it's way through my house with no mercy.  Losing seven days in the middle of December is just fabulous.  Especially when you've left all your Christmas prep for the last minute.  Planning Fail.   But I digress.  Another thing that's been left to the last moment is goals/challenges for the coming year.  Here...

My many thanks to Sarah Belliston for hosting the Twelve Days of Christmas Giveaway and Blog Hop!  I'm flattered that she asked me to participate and excited that all of you entered my giveaway of a copy of His Good Opinion by Nancy Kelley, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and a Starbucks gift card!     I love Mr. Random because he is, indeed, random.  And it doesn't matter if you are the first entry or the last, you...