Friday: Date Night Location: A coffee/gelato shop. Mr. R and I have just seen Super 8 and are now sugaring up. Mr. R: Can I try your key lime? Me: (sighs heavily) Fine. Mr. R: You can try pistachio if you want. Me: (sighs heavily) Fine. Mr. R: Isn’t that great? This is the best [...]
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Jun
Next week, I’ll be giving a talk on my writing career to one of the toughest audiences imaginable: TEENAGERS. At the time I was a teen, I had no idea of the awesome power I wielded. Marketers bowed before my every whim; city programmers bent time and space to draw me into the library. And [...]
15
Jun
Yesterday was my daughter’s birthday, so maybe that’s what’s caused me to become maudlin and sentimental this week. But whatever the reason, I did something I haven’t done in more than a decade. I watched JURASSIC PARK. I had no idea if I would like it, after all this time. Last year Mr. R and [...]
9
Jun
R is for Research: Agent, Agented, Agenting
Posted by Theresa Published in Research, The writing lifeHow do you get an agent? How do you FIND an agent? How do you decide which agents are good and which are not? Good questions, all. It took me months to figure out the answers. I did a lot of research. And since it’s a Thursday, and we haven’t had a research post for [...]
3
Jun
“Wait a minute!” said one of my trusty friends on Facebook when I mentioned that I was working on a bucket list. “I thought a bucket list was for what you want to do before you die.” No, that’s not what this is. What it is, actually, is a giant theft from author Mia Marlowe. [...]
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Jun
Ah, summer reading club. If you were ever a kid–which most of us were, at some point–you probably headed to the library at some point during those blessedly long vacations from school. Libraries always have something great going on during the summer, especially a Summer Reading Club. Uhm, rewards for reading books? Yep, I was [...]