Author Archive
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My Workshop!
‘ve been meaning to flog my workshop–uh, I mean, tell you how much you really want to go to my workshop at the Beaumonde/Hearts through History conference on July 30th.
It’s entitled Women, Property, and Personhood (not the title that’s showing up on the Conference List), and it’s a short look at the legal development of [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in History, Legalese, Workshops by CM
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Huzzah!
y good friend and sometime CP Sara Lindsey just sold her debut novel, Promise Me Always. This is just in time for her to get a pretty pink ribbon at Nationals (and to accept a lot of drinks from those of us who are buying).
NAL is going to publish her trilogy in 2010. [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Friends, Writing by CM
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
oday, I was forced to think about methods of authentication. I have a scene or two in my book in which my heroine heads to a bank to make a withdrawal from an account. When I originally wrote them, I did a little bit of research to see where banks were and what [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Random, Reading, Real Life by CM
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Perfect Books
don’t demand perfection from my books; I read because there are enough truly magical books–transportive and transcendent–out there that one out of ten or twenty really rocks my world. At the rate that I read, that means I get one or two a month. And of the books that don’t hit the magical mark, [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Reading by CM
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Brenda Novak’s Diabetes Auction
he fabulous Brenda Novak runs an annual auction to raise money for juvenile diabetes. It’s a fantastic event, in which you can both get some great items and help out with a wonderful cause.
This year, the 2008 Golden Heart Finalists have gotten together to offer three separate auctions:
This is the perfect way to give [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Romancery, Writing by CM
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Various and Sundry
he various: I updated my main website. I wanted colors that were less faded. Also more birds. Basically, I got bored of my other look and so I changed it. I shudder to think how that will work when I have something professionally done and cannot afford to change it [...]
22 Comments » - Posted in Legalese, Writing by CM
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The Season of the Devil
hus continues CM’s monthly blog-fest. Come July, I shall blog more. But for now, this rate is just fine.
As I am sure you know, we have come up on the Season of the Devil. Oh, come now. Don’t stare at your computer screen in coy surprise. You know what I’m [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in Food, Random by CM
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Obligatory Post
ou’ll notice that in my “goals” post for the year I did not mention “update blog regularly” as a goal. That is because there was no way to make it a goal (I originally typed “gaol”–how appropriate!) without interfering with two other goals–writing, and getting through my day job with a modicum of grace.
So [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, Writing by CM
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Things I learned from writing books.
little more than a year ago, I sat down and said, “Ho hum. I shall write a book.” And since everyone up until that point agreed I was a pretty good writer, this seemed like a fantastic idea to me. I mean, if I can put words on a page in [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, Writing by CM
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Goals
lot of people are talking about goals. I have three lists of goals. One is my mid-year goals list–the things I want to accomplish by July of 2008. Then I have the 2008 goals list. And then I have my 10-year plan, for 2018.
The one thing I always keep in [...]
