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  • Author's Day Off

    July 5, 2009

    • Okay. So last blog, Peepy and I had pulled practically an all-nighter to finish our chapter book, BOBBY VS. GIRLS (ACCIDENTALLY) . . . (I actually did the writing, and Dan Santat did the illustrations, but Peeps claims that everything was her idea.)How did we celebrate? Why with Dot's Cupcakes, what else . . .Later, it was time to do all those exciting and glamorous things authors do when ...
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  • A deadline is a pressure cooker not a crockpot

    May 20, 2009

    • I'm hard at work on Chapter 24 of Bewitched & Betrayed -- though that's the ultimate understatement. I have two chapters to write in two weeks, plus some tweaks throughout the manuscript, then put the 25 separate chapter files together into one file. Then comes spellchecking, formatting, adding headers, page numbers, and generally making sure it looks good before I load it into an email for ...
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  • The Dead Line

    March 1, 2009

    • I just came out of an extended period in what my staff (The Pack) refers to as "Black Ops." My pack, my friends, and my family all know that when I am on deadline for a book, I don't answer the phone, I don't open my email (I have most of email forwarded to one of The Pack), and, except to make sure my wolf Tiwa gets a little exercise, I definitely don't leave the house unless I'm out ...
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  • Deadline passed - but not by much

    October 1, 2008

    •  Dear writers, The deadline I set to finish my first volume of Eva Roger's Small Hotels Mysteries, September 30, 2008, has come and gone, but I'm close, very close. Setting deadlines helps me as long as I don't let those deadlines push me into offering a book I'm much less than happy with. These past three weeks have been spent editing, rewriting, doubting, and struggling through bouts of ...
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  • Poetry Is To Money As Ice Cream Is To Mud

    September 26, 2008

    • YOU CAN MIX & LICK ‘EM ALL, BUT ONLY TWO’LL BE SWEETYou will not have roses thrown at your feet. You will not make money. You will not become the celebrated guest poet at universities & bookstores coast-to-coast. You will not be invited to read your poetry all over the world. You will not have multiple book release parties. You will not be discovered and heralded as the next John ...
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