Shelf Life of Food and other Mashup of Awesomeness
The Friday Mashup of Goodness It's been a week and a half. I'm digging into YouTube, figuring out Pinterest, using my son as my personal assistant and learning how to work that relationship (as I'm paying him, too) as well as write, read, be a good worker bee and a...
Writer Wednesday Welcomes Dolores Maroney!
How We Met I first met Dolores Maroney in 2011, in the corridor of a hotel that hosted the Romantic Times convention in downtown Los Angeles that year. She was standing with Sarah Vance and both of them were members of my local RWA chapter, the Los Angeles Romance...
Back To School Go I…Why?
Because. I'm in school again. I'm going to WanaCon this weekend (5am Webinar this morning about Twitter. OMG...but Marcy Kennedy made it worth while!), I'm taking the two month author platform course by Kristen Lamb (she calls it a blogging course but it's much,...
Raven Bower Visits on Writer Wednesday
Raven Bower Today I'm excited to introduce you to Raven Bower, another writer pal of mine. Settle in and enjoy the interview! CA: What made you decide to write a novel? RB: The characters were tormenting me! Novels are a thing that need to be written, a drive that...
Whither Wine Fridays?
Whither Wine Fridays? I like Wine. I like Fridays. So it seemed a perfect match, to blog about Wine on Fridays. But...maybe it's time to branch out in another direction. The question is, which direction? It's not like the world is rushing to my door, giving me wine...
Robena Grant on Writer Wednesday
Writer Wednesday with Robena Grant Writer Wednesday is that day I get the chance to share writer friends with you. Today I'm thrilled to have Robena Grant with me. She's the author of the Desert Heat series, which includes Unlock the Truth and The Blue Dolphin. CA:...
Return to Laughter by Jameson Parker
Jameson Parker I found Jameson Parker to be intelligent, charismatic, and possessing a wickedly dry sense of humor. He is a forthright man and boy, does he know his way around words! I read his book An Accidental Cowboy back in December. A memoir told in chunks of...
White Wine Goes With Veggies
In these days of high unemployment and global financial crisis, it’s nice to relax with a bottle of wine that doesn’t break your pocketbook. I’m here to sort out the memorable from the truly awful, and each bottle is under $10. Leese-Fitch California Chardonnay...
Sally Felt on Writer Wednesday
I am hugely excited to introduce Sally Felt to all my pals, here on Writer Wednesday. Sally and I go way back, and she's an absolutely lovely person. I'm thrilled to say her first novel, GOING NATIVE, is out through Ellora's Cave, and it's a doozy! I read it...
The Rite of Spring
It all started with me running a handbag down to the woman who works with us at my day job every now and then. She walks with two canes, and her handbag is heavy - so one of us in the office always comes down and brings it to her before her ride picks her up. I was...