My office…my life…me

My office is featured over at Lisa Renee Jones’ blog today. I have to say you can tell a lot about me by looking at my wall and that isn’t really a coincidence. When I was young I read a book where a girl made a collage over her bed that was formed in a spiral. Each item said something about who she was...

Wausau RWA turns out for Characters Beyond GMC

  My friends Kathy Steffen and Jenna Reynolds went with my a few weeks ago for my presentation Characters Beyond GMC at the Wausau area WisRWA meeting. We had a great...

Dump, dump, dump, dump…

You probably don’t know it, but a dump is a great thing if you are an author. It means you got one of those special little cardboard display things just for you in some store (hopefully many stores). Well, guess what? Harlequin did one for the two Nocturne anthologies out right now…one of which...

Lori at Ninc!

Hi, all! I’m checking in from the Novelist Inc. conference in St. Louis. The actual conference starts today, but yesterday was dedicated to Forensics. It was chock full of some great information. I think my favorite was listening to the FBI agent and Franklin County Sheriff’s major who were...

Chasing Life down the street

Anyone else feel like they are chasing life down the street? That it’s moving ahead of you a bit more every day? I didn’t used to feel this way. I think it’s the kids…who knew they came with such increased chaos? Anyway, this week I could maybe should be at the RWA National...

Animals and books…

I did a panel a few months back about animals in fiction…or something like that. It was a surprisingly full room with surprisingly lively interaction between panel and attendees. But then again, maybe it wasn’t surprising. We humans as a rule are quite geeky about our animals. And animals are a...