Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015!
So, I know I was supposed to write a year in review post yesterday, but since I plan to both look behind at 2014 and ahead at 2015 in this post, I hope you’ll forgive…
Updates
Just a quick update here: Summer Chaparral is revised and off to the editor again! I’m tentatively planning for an October release for that book. Tentatively. Also, I made up a new cover for An…
Titles and Covers and Blurbs, Oh My!
Apologies for the cheesy post title. I’ve finally updated my website to includes covers, blurbs, and tentative release dates for all my series. Took a little long than I had anticipated, but I think it’s…
The Indolent Homesteader: Housekeeping
OK, so this post isn’t really about housekeeping; it’s about a conversation between my husband and me. I should point out that my husband and I are a pair of smartasses and that everything said here…
A Long Time Coming
Versions of this post have been simmering in my mind for months and now it’s finally time to write it. (Don’t worry, like any good romance, it has a happy ending.) As you might notice…
Scientific Love
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that scientists usually marry other scientists. Not always, but usually. There are numerous reasons for this: a shared language (science can be a language unto itself), proximity (if you work…
Updates From the Writing Cave
In the interests of full disclosure, I have to admit I don’t actually have a writing cave. I have a desk, piled high with Very Important Papers that need to be filed, books for research,…
Auto-Synapse (or, Seeking a Heroine)
The common conception of cells is that they are blebby sorts of things, amoeba-like, floating in a nutrient soup with everything they need to survive safely contained within their membrane. Maybe an illustration from a…
Another milestone reached!
Yesterday, I finished my second full length novel! Well, to be honest, finished is maybe kind of too strong. When I write first drafts, they are very terrible–it’s really only dialogue and telling at this…
Progress Report
So, I finished the novella I was working on, the one that is a companion to Summer Chaparral. (Which also happens to be my very first finished novel!) I intended this novella to be a…