fellow greenwillowite, david macinnisgill is running a contest to give awayarcs to his debut novel, soul enchilada,along with other random fabulous prizes.
you gotta make a candy heart phrasewhich will be judged by hip teens. i’veleft it a little late and the contest endstoday. but i had fun! check out my gothcandied hearts–cause you know i’m [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
candy hearts
July 31, 2008 – 4:09 pm
revisions and feminine rituals
July 30, 2008 – 9:52 pm
i spent most of the morning workingon revisions. i’m grateful for my twowonderful critique groups, because notonly do they offer encouragement andcomments, but they’ve helped mebetter deal with post critique depression.haha!
what usually happenend was i’d send fantasticpages (so i thought) to the group, and theywould then point out inconsistencies or raisequestions or suggest ways to [...]
immersed
July 25, 2008 – 4:42 pm
i haven’t updated because i likepulling up the blog and seeing myfoto with mr.gaiman. =Dalso because it’s been avery busy week.
at the beginning of the week,virginia sent me a link to some possible models who will poseas my heroine for the cover shoot.we agreed on the three we feltwere the best possibilities. that wasvery fun [...]
could i smile any bigger???
July 23, 2008 – 4:34 am
so my bamboo painting was a giftfor neil gaiman. he’s teaching at clarionthis week and i was so excited to learnthat he’d be doing a signing at mysteriousgalaxies, limited to one hundred people.
i was number 85.
he did a fantastic half hour or so readingfrom the yet unpublished graveyard book.he did voices so well and was [...]
backing bamboo
July 20, 2008 – 11:34 pm
i spent some time onsaturday afternoon backing a bamboopainting. i haven’t backed anythingin over a year. mainlybecause i was having issues withthe painting not staying flat whileit dried, therefore warping. =(
this makes the surface of thepainting “wavy” and it doesn’tlook nice at all, even when framed.
so instead, i have been taking mypaintings in and paying [...]