If I Were My Own Friend

Aug 06 , 2009
I have no pages to show for today, or none that I’m keeping. I got very impatient with myself about it. I started to really beat myself up, then I thought well there is the [...]
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Hospital

Aug 05 , 2009
We just spent four hours in the emergency room with Carri, my assistant and good friend, and her wife, Pili. Carri left work here and headed for home about twenty minutes later [...]
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Vampires and Paranormal Thrillers

Aug 03 , 2009
Several of you have written in about my Entertainment Weekly interview. You’ve said that I disrespected Anne Rice by saying that I pioneered my genre, not hers. I [...]
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Trying for Displine

Aug 02 , 2009
Left Jon tucked into bed. We made the mistake of turning off a DVD but not the television and got caught up in the movie, "Apooloosa" based on a Robert B. Parker book. [...]
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Writing Advice, or maybe just Shared Confusion

Jul 29 , 2009
So many of you ask me how to be a published writer, and I’m sort of stumped, because every writer I know well does it differently. We are very individualistic creatures, we [...]
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Why Didn’t Watch Apollo 11 Coverage

Jul 26 , 2009
I didn’t watch any of the Apollo 11 footage on TV or on the computer. I didn’t listen to any of the audio. At the time I just thought, well, I’m really busy. [...]
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Why the Bad Mood Yesterday?

Jul 25 , 2009
My mood went really dark yesterday. By the end of the day I was left puzzling over what went wrong inside my head, or emotions, or whatever to cause all that blah. So I went over [...]
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Shapeshifter questions and a writing question answered

Jul 24 , 2009
Questions from Forum, Twitter, Face Book, and My Space: 1. How does Mowgli Syndrome work? This was first mentioned in DANSE MACABRE, but for those who are not that far in the [...]
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And yet . . .

Jul 23 , 2009
Things that people don’t tell you about tattoos: 1. They hurt after you get them not just during. 2. They will eventually start to itch like crazy, and you must not scratch [...]
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No battle plan survives . . .

Jul 22 , 2009
We were supposed to go to the gym tonight, but 7:30 came and we were not even close to ready to leave, so we called it. We got dinner and were going to try to see Harry Potter, [...]
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