Posts Tagged ‘The Hideaway’
Housekeeping, rest, and multi-tasking, oh my.
Yesterday, I cleaned the downstairs of my house for two hours. Not too farfetched a story until you consider we’d just gotten back in town twelve hours before. We were gone for two weeks. How, pray tell, does a house (specifically the floor) get so dirty when no one is home?? This is what I…
Read MoreThe Friday 5: Books, Josh Ritter (again), and scrambled eggs
1. As I’ve said above in my “About” section (#9 to be specific), I am generally a bad scrambled egg maker. As my husband likes to say, I tend to leave about whole egg stuck to the bottom of the skillet, and when I’m only cooking two eggs, that’s a problem. Enter The Green Pan.…
Read MoreThe Friday 5: book news, difficult middles, and waiting for summer
1. In The Hideaway news: I finally turned in the manuscript to my editor! It has been sitting on a flashdrive untouched since last summer when I began talks with HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson, and I’ve been dying to send it off to get the process started. Unfortunately, it’ll still be a couple of months before I get…
Read MoreThe Friday 5
josh-ritter-the-royal-city-band-tickets_01-20-16_17_56017fed1a1d7 1. Matt and I have been waiting for Josh Ritter to come back to Birmingham and he’s finally coming!! It’s not until May, but the wait will be worth it. His recent album, Sermon on the Rocks (album art above), is awesome. If you don’t know who he is, check him out. His live…
Read MoreThe Hideaway comes out in just a little over a year!!
Seriously. I’ve been throwing around “a year and a half” but really, it’s only about a year and two months. That’s crazy. So I need to stop saying a year and a half. Closer to one year sounds much closer. In the interest of full disclosure about how this whole publishing process works, I’ll tell…
Read MoreThe Friday 5: Blurbs, Books, and back to regular life
The kids went back to school this week–woohoo! It was a “short” week, meaning four days of school instead of five (and two instead of three for my preschooler) but the parental readjustment to making lunches and getting myself dressed before 8 more than made up for whatever shortness the school people intended. I have…
Read MoreFriday 5: Random Assortment, but not a resolution to be found
jacket 1. Several years ago, I officially deemed myself a “cold person.” I’m mostly cold from mid-October through the end of March, regardless of how many layers I wear, how much hot tea I drink, how many blankets I pile on myself. To add to the coldness, I’ve never found a jacket that really keeps…
Read MoreHow It All Went Down
Everyone knows the process of publishing a book is a long slog. Even I know that and I’m still at the bottom of the hill. Maybe a few steps up from the bottom, but significantly closer to the bottom than I am to the top. I always like to read about how a person goes…
Read MoreTempering my Excitement (aka Good Things are in the Works!)
When I was pregnant with my first daughter Kate, I refused to register for baby things until I absolutely had to. I waited until I had a baby shower coming up, when I knew friends and family would want to buy us things we needed. I’m not sure I ever said it out loud to…
Read MoreOn dejection and preserving the light
I’m writing to admit something. I am in the middle of a significant writing slump. Although slump probably isn’t the right word. It’s a writing brick wall–but not writer’s block persay, because I’m not writing much. You’d have to be writing to be blocked. Maybe it’s more writer’s dejection. You see, I got The Hideaway…
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