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Archive for October, 2008

Mermaids live in coral caves

Posted in creativity, family, life, writing, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When I woke up this morning, mist was rising from a lake in the distance, and I felt like I was in a fairy tale. I was really in a cub scout campout for my grandson. Exhausted by our adventures, canoeing, pellet gun shooting, archery, swimming, not to mention sleeping badly in a cold tent, [...]

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Back from New York

Posted in writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’ve just come back from New York and an interesting conversation with my agent, who has been in the business thirty years. She asked me to send my next manuscript to her either PDF or as a word document because she was going to read it on her Sony Reader. She said that many publishing [...]

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When Sunday night rolls

Posted in creativity, life, tagged , , , , , on October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When Sunday night rolls around, and I haven’t noticed that tiny little pop around something that has happened in the week (fodder for this blog), I turn to my journals. I don’t keep them on any kind of regular basis. But when I do, I write one or two lines (more if so inclined) on [...]

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Because I’m tired

Posted in "Dark Angels", character, family, life, love, sisters, writing, writing process, tagged , , , , on October 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Because I’m tried of mean politics delivered in gosh darn accents, because the stock market and depression talk of last week scared me (the cats say it scared everybody), because friends did something so kind and heartfelt I haven’t words for it yet, because I feel rudderless and writing the ending of this fourth book [...]

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