Proving that Sumo and Texas Can Mix
Found this pic on my old blog, “Sumo Beautiful,” and it made me laugh. Again. Proves that Texas and sumo CAN mix. Enjoy.
Elsie Park Knows.
I have a guest today on this here blog. It’s my beautiful and brilliant friend Elsie Park. She is a wonderful mother, a super homemaker, and an all around neat person. I wish she’d move to town. That’d be so fun. Elsie has her debut novel, er, debuting right now. It’s called Shadows of Valor, […]
Real Men Wash Their Jeans
Hey, my little novella Super Daisy! just got a fun review: “If you’ve ever had an unrequited love, a mean girl who terrorized you, a family business that’s struggling, a dead end job, and strong-as-diamonds-fingernails then you’ll totally relate to this delightful tale. Give it a read.” Nice, right? Granted, it was from my sister. […]
Can Cowboys Write? Can a Brit Shoot a Gun? Can a Cowboy Teach a Brit to Shoot?
Yesterday I got the mail and in it was a package of stuff from my mother dear. Stuffed in among some pictures from the summer (which were truly fun, and I’ll post some someday), was an article she cut out of the newspaper for me. STRANGELY, it was a review/announcement for the very book I […]
Living Up to My Privileges as a Parent
I *finally* shampooed my carpets this morning. It’s such a disgusting task. Not the actual scrubbing part. I’ve got a carpet shampooer. It’s fine. It’s the dumping part–when I pour the sucked-up cleaning water down the drain. Gross. It’s just almost sludge. While I like the illusion of cleaner carpets, I wonder how many, many […]
Super Daisy! is Here!
Why did I put an exclamation point in the title? I wonder! F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” So, hahahahahahaha! Nevertheless, my new novella SUPER DAISY! is here at last. And it’s just $1.99. Click here to download for your Kindle! And if […]
The Reluctant Blogger Debuts Today!
My good friend Ryan Rapier is having one of those long-dreamed-of days. His first novel hits the world today! And I feel really lucky and honored that he asked me to join his blog tour and to be the one who touts the book on “The Big Day.” Kudos to Ryan for writing something really […]
Super Daisy! Cover Reveal
Anybody wanna see the cover of Super Daisy!? Voila! Many thanks to my brother in law, Dave Gileadi, for lending his expertise in getting this together. He guided me through the ins and outs of Pixlr and has such a good eye for where things go artistically. Even though he never put his own hands […]
How to Give an E-Book as a Gift
My latest go-to gift is an e-book. This is probably because I have a lot of reading friends. Almost everybody has either an e-reader or a downloaded an app e-reader for a smartphone or tablet. Even *I*, technophobe extraordinaire, have the Kindle app on my tablet. When I’ve read and loved a book, sometimes I’m just dying to […]
