To save money, I packed only a carry-on and flew a red-eye in time to arrive for the beginning of conference. My first conference without Mom. 🙁 I flew by myself, and took the shuttle by myself, and checked in all by myself. That’s right; I’m a big girl now. (Knuckle bump if you sang […]
Archive | Editing
Love is on Pause
I still have Part Two of “Love is in the Air” pending, but a rush edit job came my way and pushed blogging aside. An editor requested a past client’s full manuscript. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the one I had edited, so I’m doing a full book edit in four days. Whew! Pray that “B” will […]
A Mom Moment … and More!
Joshua got hurt the other day and I said something about his owie. “What are they really called, Mom?” Uh … what ARE they really called? It’s been “owie” for more than decade. “Wounds?” I quavered. Sure, that sounds good. Come on, people, what’s the grown up word?? Random God moment: Someone I know works […]
Free Critique Opportunity
Well, I’m sure all of you are already signed up for the infrequent, humorous Ashberry Lane newsletter (right? right?), but just in case you aren’t or it ended up in your spam folder, go to our contest and update page on Ashberry Lane. If you scroll down past the subscription form, you can read the […]
Just a Bunch of Flying Pixels
Mom and I have been in “deep edit” mode for the last month. Yesterday we polished up a new ending to On the Threshold and sent it to our fresh test reader. The lucky lady had not seen our writing before and was able to keep up with us, chunks of chapters at a time, […]