http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings A blog by aspiring romance author Courtney Milan Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:43:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My 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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/06/25/huzzah/ Today, 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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/06/18/136/ I 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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/05/10/perfect-books/ The 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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/05/02/brenda-novaks-diabetes-auction/ The 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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/03/25/various-and-sundry/ Thus 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. ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/03/08/the-season-of-the-devil/ You'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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/02/09/obligatory-post/ A 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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/01/21/things-i-learned-from-writing-books/ A 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 ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2008/01/01/goals/ I see I have not blogged once in December. That is because all of my writing words have been going into the sidebar. My head hurts with how far that progress bar has moved. I know it says "Ornithology Revisions," implying that I have been revising pages. ... http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2007/12/31/one-last-post-in-2007/