Well, here we are, at the end of week one.
Monday morning at 9:33, on the first day of no school, my daughter uttered the words I’d been dreading for months: “I’m bored.”
So I’ve been ferrying them around and plying them with sugar and swimming pools all week. Thank God I’ve got them in a [...]

Hi, everyone!
I know I’ve been absent for a bit — I’ve got two books due in the next four weeks, and that’s been my focus night and day for a while now.  Fortunately, after a month or two of pedal to the metal (or fingers to the plastic, as the case may be), I’m now [...]

The taxes are done, the manuscripts I’m supposed to review are about half-finished (they’re due next Friday), and the copyedits due Tuesday have barely made it out of their big manila envelope.  And don’t get me started on my book deadlines.
But you know what?
I’m leaving it all behind to eat Doritos and read trashy novels [...]

So I’m teaching my bi-annual writing class on Monday nights this month, and as I see the apprehensive/excited faces behind the desks each evening, I realize again what an act of courage it is (and it is) every time a writer sits down to commit an act of prose.  (Or poetry, or whatever it is [...]

This is going to be short but sweet, I’m afraid… hubby has a kidney stone, kids have been home all week, and I still have strep throat (the first round of antibiotics didn’t work), which means I’m like the walking dead here.
Maggie, it may not flu, but I feel your pain.
Anyway, as I staggered to [...]

So I got my annual March bug last week — usually it holds out for Spring Break, but I guess since we have no big plans this year, it decided to arrive early — in the form of Strep Throat. I was only out for two or three days, but the timing could have [...]

It’s been a busy week for me; Howling at the Moon is finally out, my children have come home with science projects that require parental assistance (enough said), and I’m working hard at getting another book written. So in the spirit of multitasking and time management, I decided to make a phone call while [...]

I realized this morning that HOWLING AT THE MOON, the first book in the Tales of an Urban Werewolf trilogy,  is out in less than a week.  I’ve been working on this trilogy for two years now — I’m almost halfway through the third book — and although I’ve been living with Sophie for twenty-four [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
I was just thinking last night as I perused the card section of the grocery store and selected eight (yes, eight) valentine’s cards, four colorful potted plants, and two 24-count plastic bags of candy valentines (which I later filled out and hotglued together for my children’s classmates) that the romantic aspect of [...]

In a fit of good will some weeks back, I volunteered to help out with my son’s Winter Party, which is scheduled for tomorrow.  Which means I’ve got to figure out a way to transport and serve enough hot chocolate to satisfy 70 kindergarteners.  Yes, that’s right.  70!
I’m not completely insane, of course.  In fact, [...]