Writer Tamago

I'm back from the tai chi retreat. As gentle as tai chi is overall, six hours of tai chi can leave you a little sore. The Wii loved that I logged six hours of activity while I was gone over the weekend. This morning I reached my first modest goal. When you do that, flowers [...]

I decided that I was giving up sugar. I can do artificial sweeteners, and I can have sugar in things, but food where the point is sugar? No more. Are you surprised that I've dropped about four pounds this week? The regular workouts have got to help too. My current goal is to throw an [...]

Eye teeth would be given to write as wittily as Thomas Disch did. Um...what, exactly, is an eye tooth? *** It's a weird year for my respiratory track. Yesterday, I kind of started... oozing in the afternoon. I knew the pollen count was high, and while not allergic to pollen, you know, it didn't seem [...]

There was an entry somewhere in the Tamago's journalistic morass about a guy who approached me at a convention, tried to get me to buy his book, and pretty much that was the only message he had for me. I had just met him, and moving that product was his only motivation. I had been [...]

Look! It's 9 pm, and I'm writing in my journal. You don't want to hear about my social life, my busy work week, or my new hair do. That's where I've been, and why I haven't been writing for the past five days. I will get some done tomorrow night, as we're finally at home [...]

It's a busy day here, as I'm registering second-language students for summer and fall, so I can't do much other than pimp my fellow VP'er George Galuschak and his story Middle-Aged Weirdo in a Cadillac at Strange Horizons. Go read it. I've read it. It's good. Catherine

Looks like Live Journal is down for the count at the moment. Guess we'll have to make our own fun sitting close to the fireplace telling ghost stories and making shadow puppets. Instead, let's talk Project Runway. I was pretty cranky after last season. Any of the designers who showed promise were kicked off the [...]

This comes courtesy of Cynthia Leitich Smith's blog, one of the best compendium's in the YA Universe, AND my good friends at the excellent resource known as Query Tracker. There are an increasing number of agents asking for revisions before offering representation. Joan Paquette sheds some illumination on why. Most notably for me, this quote [...]

Scrolling through Twitter this morning, it looks as though a couple of agents engaged in a chat became tired of the question what's the hot trend right now. Are there really writers out there who can identify a trend and shoot that curl? I imagine that's a very handy talent to have. If you are [...]

There has been fall out from the death of Phoebe Prince, a young woman who killed herself because of incidents of bullying at her high school. Phoebe's story is all the sadder because it is not an isolated incident. Stories like this permeate the news. My anger against the bullies is strong. My fury against [...]