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It's Vegas, Baby!
We got back Friday night. Five full days in Vegas which simultaneously felt like forever and also the blink of an eye.I knew, in theory, that Las Vegas would be overwhelming - the lights, the crowds,...
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Thanksgiving
This is a snippet from Coming Apart, both because it’s the perfect time of year to re-share and because I’m up to my eyebrows in Thanksgiving preparations and so I'll leave you with Ava’s meal...
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It's the most exhausting time of the year
Every year, I think it will be different. I'll get through craft show season, thanksgiving, and craft show season part 2 without turning into a puddle of goo on the living room floor. And every year,...
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Representation matters
Stepping away from books agin this week to talk about a custom order I just shipped out on Monday. A woman reached out to me, and said that her four-year-old granddaughter was obsessed with the...
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Insomnia
Rufus can always sleep.I'll be 60 in January. No, I have no idea how that happened, and it's a topic for another day.What I'm thinking about today - because I haven't slept - is another one of the...
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Positively positive
Well, this was unexpected.Maybe it shouldn't have been - most of us have either experienced this or been anticipating it since March 2020 - but there are only two positive tests I don't want to see,...
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A merry little Christmas
Low key was the order of the day. My husband is feeling much better but I've apparently started a completely unrelated cold, the kind with the huge surprise sneezes that come with the risk of putting...
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2023 Recap
Indulge me a little, if you don't mind.A few friends (the ones on the snarky scale) tell me that I worship at the altar of productivity. They're not wrong; they just mean it in a negative sense but...
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Handwork
This Monday I went to my town's fiber arts meetup. I always intend to go, and I've only gotten there a few times before. It started during Covid as a meetup in one member's backyard so the makers in...
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Storytellers
I come from a family of storytellers. Not writers - they wouldn't have thought to do that - but they could tell stories, and many of those stories built a world in me that came out on my Ava and Claire...
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Snow day, rain likely
It snowed the other day, for the first time in a solid two years. We've been having a lot of rain, but I'd rather have snow - it's prettier, it makes everything quiet, and nobody gets a rain day off...
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And then there were two
So I've been saying almost since the time we got Rufus that we needed two cats. But after a few months without one, and not finding any bonded pairs at the local rescue that appealed, we got Rufus and...
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Catchall
This week it's just sort of a piecemeal, patchwork, catch-up affair - nothing major has happened. I had a birthday, it was 60, we went out for a lovely dinner at our favorite French restaurant. The Ava...
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What's next: The Son in Shadow
Now that Ava & Claire are fully launched into the world, I've gone back to my first love, the Tudor era.I thought there were going to be five full novels in the series, with a collection of short...
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Sentimental journey
A non-book-related post this week.Before Christmas, I was contacted by a woman who I'd met when I was vending at the local farmers market. She asked if it's be interested in doing something with her...
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It happens every year
Autumn is my favorite season, but winter comes a close second. I like battening down the hatches and being indoors when it's cold outside. I like being outdoors when it's cold outside. I definitely do...
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Rage against the machines
I've mentioned before that I have done some experimenting with the different AI language models. Chat GPT and Google Bard (now Gemini) were actually quite helpful in rewriting my book descriptions for...
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Enemies to Lovers
We're not there yet, but things are definitely improving. They're willing to eat side-by-side, but most of the time they don't want to be in the same room.One exception: early morning, when the front...
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Tis the season
Garden season, that is. In the front yard, the daffodils are exploding in a riot of yellow - so many that I can actually *smell* them. The hyacinths are up, but the grape hyacinths, usually the...
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Anyone have a bridge for sale?
The Son in Shadow, Tudor book 4, is almost there. Almost done. I'm very glad I shifted from my original planned mid-April release date, because while I could get it done and edited and formatted in...
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Welcome to the farm!
I'm still going to get The Son in Shadow finished by the end of this week. If I have to give up sleep, I'm going to get that book FINISHED.But I probably won't have to go to those lengths, because it...
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The scent of childhood
Late Saturday afternoon, my husband and I were out taking a walk when we heard a lot of sirens. I checked my phone - our county fire and police have a live dispatch app - and saw there was a house fire...
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So pretty!
Just a short check-in this week because I'm up to my ears in craft show prep for this coming weekend, edits on the just-finished book 4 of my Tudor Court series, and the garden is calling pretty...
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Live and in person
The other week, I did an author event at a local venue. It was the first time I had done something like that - I did a reading at a bookstore not long after Songbird came out, but covid put paid to...
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