Today Was a Good Day

I deposited a royalty check for my first book this morning. Three years of totals are still missing, but hey–I will now be able to keep myself in Froot Loops for another week.
Gwinnett Superior Court Judge Ronnie Batchelor on Tuesday rejected a mother’s plea to have the Harry Potter books removed from county school [...]

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Simon & Schuster and Stuff

Science Fiction Writers of America agree with Author’s Guild re: S&S new contract.
Author’s Guild gives permission to post and forward, and S&S gives permission to post their response as well.
If you don’t know about this, you really should…
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Simon & Schuster is irked that we went public with our information about their unannounced new contract language. [...]

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Author Katherine D. Jones

“I don’t think I am the same person emotionally as when I wrote Love Worth Fighting For five additional books down the line. I’m still confused about where to put the darned commas, but I hope I’ve given readers characters that are three-dimensional that you can root for, situations that are funny, or exciting, or [...]

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Writing Quote of the Week: Continency

“Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey’s fits and starts, rehearses life’s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.”
Jonathan Raban, British author, critic
“Life’s a bitch. And it’s about to have puppies.”
Seressia [...]

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Progress Report 05/07

So I thought I’d do something else, for you and me, and start tracking my projects. I have three contracted projects and two spec projects (as in want to sell) that I’ve scheduled for this year. No, I’m not really sure how I’m going to get them done and do my day job [...]

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RT pictures

Not as many as I could have, and not as many as I do have (some just need to be mailed to the parties involved with instructions on where to leave the money…)

Me with Cover Model, Fred. He writes poetry, ladies!

Me with Kathryn Falk. Somehow the second apple martini convinced me it was a [...]

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Black Women Write Differently

“…black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It’s not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don’t write very differently from white men.”

-Toni Morrison, Black Women [...]

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