Does a Book Deal = Happily Ever After?

Everyone likes a happy ending. Even the people who think the traditional Happily Ever After (or HEA as the romance-world calls it) is trite, still love it when the hero or heroine triumphs, when good defeats evil, when they finally blow up the Death Star. It’s just human nature. It’s also tempting for writers to view signing with an agent…

Being Smart

Part of the cliffside at Bandelier, the cliff dwellings I talked about yesterday. It occurs to me that a place that’s great for carving out caves also boast it’s fair share of cracks and holes. A few years back, I was offered the opportunity to sign with a literary agency. Kinda sorta. The agent emailed me, enthused about my manuscript…

A Reason to Say No

I’ve started querying agents again. I know, I know. I said I didn’t think I wanted to. I still don’t think I want to. But I want to give The Body Gift the best possible chances. So here I go again, go again. (Yes, I’m totally feeling like OK Go on the treadmills.) So, you all know how it goes….

Waiting for Godot

Here’s a pic of grandson Tobiah with my mom and Stepdad Dave, who is helping Tobiah open his birthday presents. A little catch-up here, since I posted a pic of granddaughter Aerro last week. So, I was at a bit of a loss on what to write about this morning. It’s kind of that tip-of-the-tongue feeling, like I had a…

Agency Publishing and Conflict of Interest

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air. And feather canyons everywhere. For those of you old enough to remember this song, you’re welcome for the ear worm. You know, aren’t we due for a really good cover of Both Sides Now? Someone should really get on that. So, it’s been an interesting week in…