Category: Writing Life

  • June Update at SSR

    I’m blogging over at Shape Shifter Romance today, for my monthly update of what’s happening. Stop by and say hello!

  • Another Contest Final

    More good news today. KISS OF FIRE is a finalist in the Paranormal/Time Travel/Fantasy Romance category of the Orange County Book Buyers’ Best Award. Winners will be announced at the OCC RWA chapter meeting on August 9.

  • Comics

    Do you have a favourite comic strip? I always loved The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes, neither of which are being drawn any longer. One strip I’ve been enjoying lately is Pearls Before Swine, especially this week as Rat takes a job in publishing. 1. Rat takes an editing job. 2. Rat tackles the…

  • Down Below

    I’ve been reading underground books again lately – or more accurately, books about underground spaces – and might have found a few you don’t know about. Those of you who have hung around Alive & Knitting for a while know about my fascination with underground spaces. It might come from the fact that I grew…

  • Agency

    Social historians often talk about “agency”, by which they mean the power of a certain type of person in a certain society to influence his or her circumstances. Does a peasant woman in 12th century southern France have agency? Can she get rid of an abusive husband? Can she improve her material conditions? Can she…