It is Thursday and an oncologist whose last name is Snow has just told my father that he has a few weeks to live. Sometimes poets use snow to signify death. As I wander through the tiny patch of woods off the Glen Mary Road in Bar Harbor, I think that this is appropriate in [...]
SPOILER! SERIOUSLY! TOTAL SPOILER!!!
This is a random extra scene for ENDURE, the last book in the NEED series. ENDURE is coming out in paperback in May sometime and if I were a better at publicity I would actually know when. But I am horrible at publicity. Anyways, this is TOTALLY SPOILERY. I mean COMPLETELY BIG-TIME SPOILERY, so do [...]
Boston Marathon
So, I was at the Boston Marathon today to take pictures of my friend, Lori, running and then crossing the finish line. Before the marathon I had lunch with my daughter Em. She was nervous. “I have a bad feeling,” she said. “You need to be careful.” “You have no faith in me. I am [...]
If you want to be friends, it is best not to be insulting.
I totally don’t want to blog. I mean it. I seriously don’t want to blog. And then I looked at the actual prompt for the day. Day 11: A story where the characters go without power for a day. Carrie had no power. Therefore she could not blog. She was happy. The end. Best [...]
YASH – YA SCAVENGER HUNT! BOOYAH!
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This tri-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you [...]
A box in her pocket.
Day 10: Start story with: “She touched the little box in her pocket and smiled…” She touched the little box in her pocket and smiled. Smiling was a cliche. It didn’t matter. She was done with worrying about cliches and poor writing and adverbs and men. She was through with worrying about plot points and [...]
Bar Harbor is the best city that isn’t a city
Day 9: A story in 250 words or less about your favorite city. Once there was a city named Bar Harbor, only it wasn’t a city. It was a town. You couldn’t convince Bar Harbor of that, though. It wanted so badly to be a city. “Look, little Bar Harbor,” said nearby Bangor, which in [...]
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