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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Caller ID part 2
Wonder no longer. Thanks to Kristy Dempsey I googled the number and found a bunch of sites talking about this number. (See below.) I guess caller ID is a little like the horoscopes. You believe what you want to believe. … Continue reading
Caller ID
Okay, this is a crazy, obsessive thing but… I just checked to see if I had any messages. Yes. One from my Mom. Then I did a quick scroll through my called ID and yesterday… Scholastic called. WHAT! I don’t … Continue reading
Shelf Talker
ShelfTalker is a blog by Allison Morris of Wellesley Booksmith’s children’s books-buyer fame. She has been hired by Publishers Weekly to post reviews news and observations about children’s books. It is ala cynleitichsmith but from a book-buyer’s point of view. … Continue reading
A shard of blue
The mood of the country is sad and the weather in the Northeast isn’t helping this part of the country perk up either. The rains and winds paired with astronomical high tides left destruction in their path. There are houses … Continue reading
It’s late…
…and I’m happy to say that I finished my revisions on my dummy book. Not without incident of course. Today I hired a sitter to allow me to get this work done. I had just completed a redraw of a … Continue reading
Birthday Breakfast!
A big huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wonderful, loving, and lovely sister Rebecca!
Snow
The snow and wind must be freezing my brain as I have not been able to cruise through the revision as quickly as I’d hoped. Must finish to submit to conference crit by Wednesday.
100%
30 / 30(100.0%) So I am please to report that I finished my dummy in time for last night’s critique session with my stupendous live writer’s group friends. They gave me great suggestions and helped my with some real issues … Continue reading
That dummy Dummy
Okay, I think I’ll have the Dummy of my current WIP “done” for my writers group. Done right now means that the first six spreads are completed with color and designed as I’d like to see it in the book. … Continue reading
Power Out
I just got my power back last night at 8:45 after two days without. Over 170,000 customers were affected by the snow storm here Wednesday and Thursday. I am embarassed to admit that I felt a little lost and disconnected … Continue reading
