I’m so glad you all got a kick out of yesterday’s post, where I talked about the wacky Mother’s Day gift suggestion Amazon sent me. (Pole-dancing lessons would be considered a crazy Mother’s Day gift, right? Based on some of your comments yesterday, I’m not so sure, LOL). But we’re not done yet! Today, Amazon emailed(…)
Look what popped up in my inbox today: The last time I was dangling like that I was wearing plaid shorts and scuffed tennies, my hair in braided pigtails, looking for a lost tooth on the playground. I’m sure my toes weren’t pointed. They didn’t call me “klutzy Kathy” in school for nothing. So,(…)
Gertrude Atherton – Shocking Victorian California by Kirsten Weiss The Californians, published in 1898, was my first introduction to Gertrude Atherton. The novel is creepy. The novel is gothic. And the novel was scandalous when first published. Gertrude wrote from life. Gertrude was born on October 30, 1857, in San Francisco. Childhood finances were sketchy(…)
Sounds like a bad riddle, doesn’t it? For me, they were the Fab Triumvirate of items that kept me sane during the past two weeks, while I was speed-writing with a group of fellow first-draft writers. We were writing the “Emotion Draft” – a program put together by the multi-talented Rachel Funk Heller, who designed(…)
Thanks to the fabulous Kirsten Weiss, a fellow Misterio Press author who writes the Riga Hayworth series of super-cool, humorous paranormal detective stories, I now have a book trailer for my debut mystery, Dangerous and Unseemly. I’ll tell you a bit more about Kirsten in a minute, after you check out the video: Isn’t that terrific?(…)
Welcome to April 15th, that time in the U.S. where adults pore over forms, tax software, receipt scraps, and forgotten resolutions to keep better track this year. Sitting in front of our computers is the last place we want to be, with the sunshine and cherry blossoms beckoning to us. Sigh. But April 15th makes(…)
Is your Monday getting off to a slow start? These guys will put you in the right mood! Don’t you wish you could tap into that kind of energy? Okay, break’s over – back to work! Until next time, Kathy P.S. – On Wednesday, I’ll be at Karen McFarland’s site, where I’ll tell(…)
Hi, everyone! Yesterday, I had the privilege of giving a talk to two sixth grade classes about writing novels. The Language Arts teacher is just starting a novel-writing unit that’s really cool, where the kids will come out of the process with a 30-50 page novel of their own creation, illustrated, bound and “published.” So(…)