Impossibly, it's been a year since September 1, 2009, when Dreaming Anastasia entered the world. My baby. My debut YA novel. The end of a long , twisty and crazy four year journey. Only I was wrong about that. What looked like the end, was really the beginning.

There's...

Just came back from a weekend jaunt to the Texas Hill Country with the husband. Usually around this time of year we find ourselves in desperate need of a getaway and the weekend right as school lets out is usually when we can sneak off for bit. Bastrop, Texas is...

Been on the road. This time my publisher popped for the plane ticket, which was cool. In the rest of my life I'm a public school teacher. This means I spend my days with people who get seriously excited when the PTA drops off left over doughnuts in the teacher's...

My friends who don't write -- who aren't debut authors and thus crazy as loons most days, flinging themselves from event to event and trying to balance writing and teaching and blogging and the occasional teeth flossing -- see the promotional aspect of my new world as highly romantic. They're...

So the squirrels. Did you ever notice how they hesitate? You're driving along and there's one at the curb and you see him and he sees you and you slow down just a little and give him some more woman to rodenty-creature eye contact. And then, just as it is...