Picking pears

I’ve been working hard on my non-fiction book about creating story bundles/collections, and it’s finally starting to feel like a book! Up until yesterday I felt like I had a mental block or something. The book felt like a bunch of random bits of information all jammed together, but by the end of the day…

Rosie and Jasper won a prize!

Okay, Rosie and Jasper didn’t win a real prize, but the other day when we were hiking a guy ran past us and said they get the prize for being the best behaved dogs on the trail. 🙂 When people run by us, I tell the dogs to move to the side of the trail…

Reading to the dogs

I was invited to join the Uncollected Anthology in the spring, and participated in their most recent anthology, Fairy Tales. The group currently puts out three anthologies each year, and there’s a quarterly conference call to talk about plans, marketing, etc. I volunteered to take over running these calls, and for our most recent meeting…