And thank you all very much.
I didn’t want to use a color twice but I did anyway because I had such good covers for Blue Blood and Blue Suede Shoots. So Rosie just uses blue twice. And the last one had to be called Bet On Black for story purposes, so even though […]

So I’m thinking about a new book, REALLY far down the road because I have four I have to do first, but it’s about this mystery writer. She’s had some success writing a series about a character whose name I do not have yet, but she’s done twelve now and she’s ready to scream. […]

You should be very proud.
Adoramilt: Love of Milton
Adosweptation: Love for a man who not only sweeps you off your feet but also sweeps and vacs the house on his day off (Ro)
Affecthilation: Affection for annihilation, mystery readers and writers in particular (Wendy)
Affiction: Love for a great book idea
Affurmation: Love a cat purring in your lap, […]

I found this on an astrology post at the Village Voice by Rob Brezsny (go down to the Virgo entry):
“The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them,” wrote novelist Margaret Atwood. “There ought to be as many for love.” Your assignment, as Brezsny suggested, is to […]

Lani just e-mailed Krissie and me and said that she’d heard “My loves grows where my Rosemary goes” yesterday and now she can’t get out of her head.
Krissie e-mailed back with “It’s a Small World After All.”
So I sent them the lyrics to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” That chorus is a […]

I took Krissie and Lani to the airport today and then came home. I felt bereft as soon as they rolled their suitcases into the terminal so I went to the bookstore. The idea was to get a book on horror writing to see if there was anything in it I could […]

I spent the whole day trying to fix that first scene. Lani and Krissie were kind enough to say I got it, but you know, at this point, the whole scene reads “blah blah blah” to me. Forget beats, the words don’t make sense. I think the window on this book is […]

So I think I’ve finally got a grip on Shar which makes me happy although I’m still struggling with the first scene. First scenes are the worst. I must have rewritten this scene twenty times already BEFORE it became the first scene. Now that it’s first (we cut the first two scenes), […]

I know, I didn’t post yesterday but Krissie did on D&G so it’s all there. And I forgot to threaten anybody with death tonight so there’s probably no new post on D&G. But the high points are, we did the podcast last night, and it was tremendous fun (here’s Lani)–

–and then we had […]

Krissie made it in at 10AM, so we went straight to iHop and celebrated. Then we came back home and gave her a bear that looked like Beastie and a balloon that played “Hot Stuff.” Fickle Milton spent the rest of the day leaping from Lani’s lap to Krissie’s lap and back again. […]