There is no one right way to collage for fiction writing, no one way a collage should look as the Cherries demonstrated at the Collage Pizza Pajama Party we had at Cherry Con. We started at six with pizza, scissors, glue, and every old magazine and catalog I had at my house and could [...]

I was cleaning off my desktop computer, trying to sort things into folders so I could find them, and then I printed out everything in the AKMG folder so I could see if the different things I’d written were making any sense. One file that ended up in there was called “Ghosts” so I [...]

Congratulations, Francois. E-mail your address to mollie@jennycrusie.com and she’ll pass it on to me. Oh, and tell me how you want the book signed (it’s already got my name and Bob’s in it) and whatever else I promised the winner.
Basically, I needed something that sounded like a non-intellectual fun park. [...]

So Bob and I are brainstorming, uh, wargaming a possible next book–not sure, just talking about it, nothing to see here, don’t get invested–which would be set in a very small, very old amusement park in the middle of nowhere. And we’re both brain-fried and we can’t think of anything to call the [...]

How much do I love Always Kiss Me Tonight? I’m dancing all over the house to the soundtrack.
This is the part (well, one of the parts) that’s always a little tense because I have to keep roiling the book in my head, listening to the people talk (I LOVE THESE PEOPLE) and not rush [...]

Besides Always Kiss Me Goodnight, (aka The One With The Ghosts), I’ve been working on a Fun Book for awhile now. It’s like nothing I’ve ever done before, completely over the top. The heroine is the embodiment of ecstasy, but her family forgot to tell her. The hero sleeps with everything [...]

I’ve been working on AKMG (that’s Always Kiss Me Goodnight to those of you who just arrived) and I’m pretty happy with it. I’m dreaming about it, the scenes are coming out fairly strong in rough draft–they’re a mess but they’re a good mess–and I’m really enjoying the research. Which is on [...]

I have a thing for writing groups. I like writing and I like people talking about writing and because of that I’ve ended up with some writing groups online. The first one grew out of the JenniferCrusieFans list on Yahoo, started by Deb Lanata years ago. Deb gave the list a terrific [...]

I will post a new blog, I swear, but in the meantime something keeps locking up the blog on the last one. I’m assuming it’s Bob’s post.
Here’s hoping this fixes the problem.

I’ve been working on the Fun Book on Sundays, and I ran into a snag because my hero, who is supernaturally irresistible (stick with me, it works) sleeps with at least twelve women before he goes to bed with the heroine. That’s believable given his character, but here’s the kicker: my heroine won’t sleep [...]