As I told the Mysterious Laura, this always makes me feel all warm inside and embarrassed outside: Eric Selinger and Laura Vivanco are compiling a collection of essays on, uh, my work, and would like you to know about it. They’re calling it Nothing But Good Times Ahead:The Novels of Jennifer Crusie, and [...]

My head has been exploding all week because I’m in that part of the book where I stop futzing around with plot and dialogue and try to make the whole thing work, try to understand the characters who’ve shown up, make sure their actions and their emotions are true and not something left over from [...]

I’m having one of those weeks where my brains are dribbling out my ears. No trauma, just delay after frustration after setback. Must be the Mars retrograde. So I have nothing for Argh except a bunch of ideas that are never going to turn into full posts. They’re the blog equivalents [...]

Gennita Low has done the Plagiarism Hoo-ra as Greek Theater.
You’re gonna laugh . . .
Addendum:
Then go read Meljean .

Stupid Sock Creatures by John Murphy tells you how to make bizarre and frightening sock . . . things.
The first 37 pages of the book are about the zen of creature making along with basic skils. The next 65 are detailed instructions on how to make eight specific creatures, Jordan, Owlsley, Red [...]

I love Mara Lubell. She takes my ideas and shows me what they look like.
Three years ago, Bob Mayer and I started a writing partnership that we wanted people to know was a real partnership, not one person doing all the work and the other person donating a name. To brand that partnership, [...]

A long time ago, when I was doing my MFA work, a Famous Author came to campus. He wrote popular historical fiction and when somebody in my creative writing class asked what his work was like, I said something snide and demeaning. Snide and demeaning has always been the basic black of bad [...]

Have you seen the large print cover for Agnes and the Hitman? As Lani said, “It’s like all the pretty in the world got sucked into the main cover, and all they had left was… that.”

No, I don’t know why Agnes is in bondage.
In other news, if you’ve been dying to [...]

We’re trying to get a complete first draft of Dogs and Goddesses done by Monday, and I think we’ll make it. But it means I’m going to be a lousy blogger until then. In the meantime, here are Wolfie and Veronica pictures.
I think Wolfie’s got some 40’s movie star thing going on . [...]