I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Captain's Log, Stardate 06.03.2006
Blog book giveaway:
My Monday book giveaway is EVERYTHING’S COMING UP JOSEY by Susan May Warren.
My Thursday book giveaway is HEARTS ON THE LINE by Margaret Daley.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for EVERYTHING’S COMING UP JOSEY and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned.
Subscribe to my blog via email! Now you can option to read my posts as an email instead of visiting my blogsite or using an aggregator like Bloglines. I have a new FeedBlitz box on the sidebar to the right (after the Blogroll) so that you can enter your email address. You still have to visit my site to comment, though.
I used to have Blog Flux but they totally annoyed me with their web dashboard and the email format, so I switched. I'll see how I like FeedBlitz instead.
TMI:
Writing: So I just finished my Marketing Information Sheet for Zondervan, and they wanted pictures of any interesting places in my book. There is one scene near the end which takes place in a Japanese garden on a bridge, and I kind of modeled it after this bridge at the Hakone Gardens here in San Jose.
Isn't it gorgeous? I stole these pictures off their website.
For the next book, I’m going to scour San Jose with my digital camera for neat places to set my story.
Blog book giveaway:
My Monday book giveaway is EVERYTHING’S COMING UP JOSEY by Susan May Warren.
My Thursday book giveaway is HEARTS ON THE LINE by Margaret Daley.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for EVERYTHING’S COMING UP JOSEY and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned.
Subscribe to my blog via email! Now you can option to read my posts as an email instead of visiting my blogsite or using an aggregator like Bloglines. I have a new FeedBlitz box on the sidebar to the right (after the Blogroll) so that you can enter your email address. You still have to visit my site to comment, though.
I used to have Blog Flux but they totally annoyed me with their web dashboard and the email format, so I switched. I'll see how I like FeedBlitz instead.
TMI:
Writing: So I just finished my Marketing Information Sheet for Zondervan, and they wanted pictures of any interesting places in my book. There is one scene near the end which takes place in a Japanese garden on a bridge, and I kind of modeled it after this bridge at the Hakone Gardens here in San Jose.
Isn't it gorgeous? I stole these pictures off their website.
For the next book, I’m going to scour San Jose with my digital camera for neat places to set my story.
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BTW, how can you get a photo off a site? Does it become public property as soon as it's up on a site. I was wondering, e.g., about my sister and brother-in-law's site. I know I can get those pictures but what if I couldn't?
This is the site for their lodge which they sold less than a year ago. http://www.rawleylodge.on.ca/ The new owners have torn down the old lodge and one of the other motel-type units. It certainly won't be as interesting anymore as it used to be. I really don't know if I even want to see the new version. The new people also sold everything like TVs, beds, the old dining room service and furniture for a song. Had we know that, I would have asked Marlis to let me have a better TV than I know have. This one doesn't even have anywhere to hoop up VCR or DVD. It all has to go through a cable connection or else you have to pay about $40 for a transformer or whatever they're called. But it was sold with the stipulation: all furnishings included. So actually I asked my sister and she said that they had just had to buy a new TV before the end of last season to replace a broked one and they couldn't even keep that, being the Christians that they are.
Is wisteria the purple "rain" on the right of the botton picture?
Thanks for sharing all this with us. Knowing they want these pictures makes creating a storyboard a really good idea. I have pics of my characters but now I'm going to be looking for places in my book. ;)
love the photos! I should come see you and have you take me there! LOL
If you can you should get a picture of kintaikyo bridge in Iwakuni, Japan. It's one of the most famous bridges here, and in spring it's really gorgeous with pale pink cherry blossom petals falling down like rain.