More on the name change

I’ve written a blog about the name change for Writer Unboxed.  It’s up today if you want to read more.

Cover art!

Oooh, the time is getting closer my friends! Elena’s book actually has a release date, December 30, and cover art for both editions. And now you can see that you will be able to buy it either as a trade or mass market paperback:

You can preorder at Amazon or Random House (not yet [...]

Never quite long enough

(I debated whether to post this, but I would not be me if I didn’t tell you this story, so here it is.)
I’m thinking tonight of my cat Leo, who was killed Saturday night by a fox or a coyote. Probably the fox I’ve seen trotting down the street so boldly, owning it. The fox [...]

Five am wake up

The Girls woke me up at a quarter to five this morning.  Let me tell you, I was sleeping very nicely.  It poured last night and cooled things down, so there was a fine soft breeze coming through the window. The animals were all asleep.  I did not want to move.
So I turned over and [...]

Recovery

I actually wrote this yesterday, Tuesday, but somehow put it in my drafts folder instead of the published folder.   Today is better still, after a massage yesterday afternoon (ouch!)
Also, a link to a few more photos from the walk. 
Yesterday, I was pleased  to realize my body felt okay.   A little weary, but that’s to be [...]

Santa Barbara Harbor and the girls in the basement

For the past three days, as I showered, or chatted with a student or another writer, or walked from one hotel to the other, the girls in the basement have kept up a little series of nudges.  “Now? Can we come out and talk now?”  
Teaching, however, takes a lot of heart energy, mind energy, and [...]

California dreamin’…tidbits

Celebrity sighting today: John McCain, no more than 20 feet from the room where we were about to begin our memoir class.  He is very small.  I’m not sure why that surprised me so much, but it did. 
For those looking for the voice worksheet, find it here: http://my.sbwriters.com/profile/BarbaraSamuel
I’m blogging tomorrow (Wednesday) at Writer Unboxed.  A [...]

Extravagant California

I landed in Santa Barbara this afternoon.  I’m here for the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, but this year decided to stay somewhere outside the hermetically perfect conference hotel.   I’m about a mile up the beach, just right.  My room overlooks the pool. This afternoon, I set out on foot in the deep heat (93 degrees, which [...]

Elena, moving along

Elena’s book is finally moving into Reality-Ville.   I saw some art for the cover the other day (beautiful!) and it is officially on the schedule for January 27 (that is, if you’re counting, only six months).   If you want to sign up for a one-time only email notification when it is on the shelves, you [...]

Summer rituals

When I was a tween, my grandmother lived in Sedalia, Colorado.  At the time, it was about six by twelve houses wide, a spit of town scattered behind a Johnson’s Corner on a narrow two lane highway between west Denver and I-25.   A train track ran along the road in front of my grandmother’s house, [...]

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