Dreams and Desires Vol. 2

Today we welcome special guest Amanda Brice, who has a story to share which is all too familiar:
___________________________________Diana, thanks for letting me blog today.
My freshman year of college, I lived down the hall from a girl named “Kate.” (Names changed to protect identities. If I get to have a pseudonym, then it’s only fair that [...]

An Example

Grrrr… in a bad mood this morning. Missing my WRW Meeting because the TRAFFIC in this TOWN is SO RIDICULOUS that on a SATURDAY MORNING I was stuck in GRIDLOCK on the beltway for an HOUR and only got about FIVE MILES from my house.
Ahem. Feeling better now.
A new agent named Jennifer Schober recently visited [...]

Still and still and still sick

One of the very very few nice things about being as sick as I am is that lying propped up in bed with my computer on my lap, awake for 15-20 minutes at a time — though not, perhaps, conducive to revisions — is very conducive to catching up on this season of Dancing with [...]

TV

There’s still time to enter the Lord of the Fading Lands Giveaway (below). Don’t miss your opportunity to get your hands on this fabulous new book!
For those who missed it, yesterday’s theme was, “things that are frustrating me.” I’d like to add to it that certain retail corporations, along with the other faults I described [...]

Oh For Pete’s Sake…

C.L. Wilson, in a show of arguably misplaced gratitude, has tagged me and pretty much everyone else I know (thereby neatly preventing me from tagging anyone else) with that Eight Things Meme that I tried really hard to avoid last time. Here goes (see if you can spot the theme):
1. A high school classmate forwarded [...]

Ugh

Q: What’s worse than being stuck in the house on a beautiful fall day*, doing revisions?**
A: All of the above, while sick*** (and tending to sick boyfriend****).
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* It’s ridiculously gorgeous outside. Makes me wonder if it’s not worth dealing with winter just so we can have fall days like this. I want to go apple-picking.** [...]

Romance and Urban Fantasy

I just had my first wedding nightmare… so it begins?
So this week, there was a bit of a kerfuffle over the genre of romance at one of my blog groups: Fangs Fur Fey. One of the members admitted a bias against romance, but in the interest of expanding her horizons, asked what books people recommend. [...]

Today’s post…

Is at Romancing the Blog.
Also, I think there is some confusion about what I mean by “don’t kill the dog” which has stymied discussion. I’ll be back tomorrow with more clarification on that axiom.

It’s starting to feel like autumn in DC. The temperature has dropped dramatically in the past week — the skies are that impossible sunny blue of fall, and the window are all open in my apartment.
I had a great break. I read books, and watched movies, and hung out with my friends. I visited the [...]

Query Opportunity

An agent at my agency, Nephele Tempest, is currently accepting queries for YA projects (especially YA fantasy), here.

I will read and respond to all queries posted. Comments are being screened, so no one else will be reading your material, and I will respond to you by e-mail whether or not I wish to see more.
So, [...]