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Today I have: Worked on an essay that’s due November 1st. It’s part of the promotion for DIVINE MISDEMEANORS. I have at least one more essay that has been due for [...]

Once I went to a Tupperware party as a favor to a good friend. She needed so many bodies to fill out her quota so I went, as a favor. I’d had a few odd instances with fans [...]

People ask me if I read other people’s books. I usually say, for research. They say, what do you read for pleasure? Reading for pleasure? Do I do that? Most people have a [...]

The edits of DIVINE MISDEMEANORS are done. I feel apprehensive writing that last sentence as if more edits will fall from the sky, land on my desk, and yell, "Ah-ha, you only [...]

I had a writer with his first novel finished and publishers actually interested, good for him, ask me about recommending a publisher that would treat a new writer well. That they [...]

I have found myself taking the mornings, or most of the day, off this weekend and only going to work after noon, or for tonight after dark. I usually do work first and then play [...]

Oops. Ok, lets try that again: Flirt, the surprise Anita Blake novel, is coming March 2010 not 2011. The Yet to be Titled Anita Blake novel is coming June 2010 not 2011. I knew I [...]

Divine Misdemeanors, the next Merry Gentry book, is still safely in New York, but Flirt was languishing needing some rewrites and editing. I told them they had to wait until [...]

Divine Misdemeanors is off to New York. It went out last night via e-mail. Once you actually had to Fed-Ex the manuscript to the publisher, but now everyone seems to prefer an [...]

My muse and I had an agreement last night. I would stay up and type until she got to a point in the book that she wasn’t sure about. What I didn’t understand when I [...]