Day off: time to go play Settlers with husband. # Walking to work through the woods. # Coming back from work through woods: Given ride by teenaged son on RTV. Still hyperventilating. # Work, [...]
From this week’s Publishers Weekly: Sales in Amazon’s North America media group were flat in the second quarter….The e-tailer attributed the results to a decline in video-game [...]
This week I’ve been taking care of various Peace Hill Press duties, meditating on the format for the middle-grade levels of the Writing With Ease series…and turning back to work, in [...]
Family day today: off the grid. # It would be way easier to go off the grid if business problems didn’t hunt you down, Terminator-like, and shake you around by the throat. # Would be [...]
Still sitting at kitchen table, trying to finish manuscript. German shepherd still sleeping, border collie in fight to death with pine cone. # Will…finish….MS…today. 5 sets of [...]
So Tuesday I finished a manuscript, and now for the first time in seven years I’m not playing catch-up with my writing. The manuscript was the last workbook in an elementary writing series [...]
Family day. I want to go do something FUN. # Kids heading off to visit cousins; next few days all about finishing Writing With Ease Workbook 4. Might also watch a disaster movie or two. # [...]
Family day: no phone, no email, no business, many cookies. # Watching Bruce Greenwood in “Nowhere Man.” That was a brilliantly written series. And, naturally, very short-lived. # [...]
That is, if you’re not sick of the topic. Here are a few of my thoughts: in the Washington Post, and in two audio interviews that ran on NPR stations this morning. [...]
If you read my Twitter updates, you probably saw this one: “Never, never argue with a bad review. Chant fifty times. Repeat ad infinitum.” It’s so tempting to explain exactly [...]
Getting ready to watch another global-disaster mini-series. I think the moon is going to hit the earth. I LOVE these. # Off the grid for family day (not to be confused with “day [...]
Michael Jackson swallowed the entire Fourth Estate. Whole. So yesterday was my Writing Day, the day I usually try to go off the grid to get some actual WORK done. But by the time I got to my [...]
