In the US, it's a holiday here. First Meandering ... I like what Canda Mortensen does at the beginning of each of her blog posts wh...

Sometimes I hate Blogger. I had a post mostly all done and tried to undo a link. Well, it deleted everything I'd posted, and I lost it a...

Anyone who's been following my blog knows that I love the LTUE (Life, the Universe and Everything) SciFi/fantasy symposium that's he...

I know I've been having a lot of blog posts lately what with cover reveals and book launches this month and I even skipped my conference...

I wish I could credit this panel of authors, but I can't find description in my conference booklet. Source: PowerPoint The better ...

I've never hidden the fact that writing description is hard for me. I think I'm getting better at it as I do it more and pay more at...

Map from The Way of Kings This is a post about a class I attended at LTUE that was taught by Isaac Stewart , who did the one above for ...

Yep, I'm headed to paradise again. I know. Rough life. Robin Weeks posted an LTUE class update about self-editing. (I know! I...

So, things are nuts, and I'm sick. This post will just have some pictures from the event. I took tons of notes and will rehash some of t...

Ever get confused about which to use--who or whom? It's not as complicated as you might think. Ask yourself a simple question: ...

I've got a guest blogger today. Her name is Bobbie Staley, and she's one of my clerks at my day job. She's not an author or an a...

I'm going to the iWriteNetwork Workshop on January 21st .  Anybody else coming? It's that time of year to first look back...

After my epic fail attempt at NaNo last year I wrote this post . At that time I did not expect to try NaNo again. Um, I so did NaNo this y...

I've talked about self-publishing before ( here ), so this isn't a new topic for me. But I've been thinking about it a lot more ...

I've been dreading the process of writing a query letter almost since I first heard of it. Some of it is because I've never done one...

What a season this is to have so many writerly conferences and symposiums happening. It's exciting because there's so much to learn ...

What a fun three days! I can definitely say that I enjoyed this conference (symposium) better than any I've attended for my work. Hmmm. ...

Well, here it is. This is WIP #1 -- all mapped out. Once I'm finished with LTUE  tomorrow, I'll be ready to start moving these nift...

As I was brousing around the blogosphere this morning before heading out to the Life, The Universe and Everything ( LTUE ) conference again ...