Monthly Archives: December 2009

stalk me! =)

i’ll have my iphone for the first
time while abroad this year. so i hope
to take random fotos and make tweets
while gone. check for my updates on
my twitter page. also if you are on twitter,
please add me! and happy holidays!
2010. wow.
http://twitter.com/cindypon

london calling

Cobbled Streets and gray skies
The smell of roasted chestnuts
Rubbing my mittened hands for warmth
as it pours from the café and shop windows
like sunshine on a summer day
But London is muted, dark too soon
beneath dense clouds
The Christmas decorations shimmer bright
colors: reds, golds and brilliant greens
Silver tinsel glitter like iced stars
I want a hot scone slathered in [...]

silver phoenix indonesian cover

i’m very excited to share the indonesia
cover for Silver Phoenix! the publisher let me
know that my book went on sale last week
abroad! so exciting!
do you love the cover?
i think it’s gorgeous in a mysterious
quiet way. i was shown the cover before
the books went into print and i only had
two comments. one was suggesting the
chinese characters [...]

a very full saturday

i had two events this past saturday.
the first was with the rolling readers at
the women’s head to toe expo at del mar
fairgrounds. when i originally signed up for
it, i thought it was a reading event. apparently,
it was the first time they decided to try and
do this book/author component with the expo,
and i suspected it might [...]

about a lily

*lily nestled in rock.
i had a fabulous time with my
brush artist friends on tuesday night.
ate great food, then proceeded to paint.
our teacher had been encouraging us
to paint rocks (which can also turn into
mountains for landscape paintings) and
i finally tackled the subject.
the hardest component in this painting
for me was the rock. it’s definitely more
challenging as i [...]