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- December 23 New Year’s resolutions
- December 20 I’m outtie …
- December 18 Doc McGhee, literary agent
- December 17 Comfort food: Christmas punch
- December 11 eBookWise
- December 9 An idea for RWA!
- December 7 The unsung hero
- December 7 And another thing …
- December 7 You wanna know how I came to self-publishing?
- November 27 Stay by Moriah Jovan
- November 21 FUBAR
- November 20 There is no such thing as royalties
- November 20 Evolution of a cover, part 4
- November 19 A Lone Artist: Wendy Drolma
- November 18 Harlequin: Ur doin it rong
- November 17 The core of genre romance
- November 15 An ebook is not a book.
- November 10 The unmentionable alternative
- November 9 Blog award! Premio Dardas
- November 6 Evolution of a cover, part 3
- November 4 Everything is still biased against the lone artist.
- November 2 Biting my tongue
- October 30 Evolution of a cover, part 2
- October 28 The first movie I ever took my kids to:
- October 23 Evolution of a cover, part 1
- October 22 Asus re-redux
- October 21 Redecorating again
- October 20 The internet before Al Gore
- October 5 More on the Asus
- October 4 The handy-dandy all-purpose digital reader
- October 2 I tidied my books today!
- September 27 Comfort food: Meatloaf
- September 14 Kansas City: Chiefs 2009-2010
- September 13 Seven years, no itching
- September 7 It’s work time.
- August 28 Coming out of the closet
- August 23 Comfort food: Cheese and onion enchiladas
- August 19 I’m not going to waste my time.
- August 14 LDS publishers, again, eBooks. Please!
- July 30 Stuff tacked to my office wall, part 1
- July 29 I’m cheeky
- July 21 My editor likes me!
- July 20 August reading list
- July 19 Another vignette
- July 18 Book Review: The Actor and the Housewife
- July 17 Comfort food: Beef stroganoff
- July 16 Book Review: The Ugly Princess
- July 14 Update on the creepy book.
- July 12 The zeitgeist of a story
- July 10 Just stop. Please.
- July 8 The Bewbies(TM) appear in the Apple store.
- July 8 Kansas City: Little help?
- July 7 This book’s kinda giving me the willies.
- July 2 PSA for LDS publishers
- July 1 Writers: Accept it and keep going. Or not.
- June 28 A cautionary tale for authors and agents
- June 27 Eating a little bit of crow…
- June 26 Yo, EPUB evangelists!
- June 24 Monkey see, monkey do
- June 23 Retreads: I rode this train for so long…why?
- June 22 Convergence
- June 21 Sneak peek at STAY
- June 19 Settling for, settling in, moving up
- June 16 The legend of Atlantis
- June 4 The parable of the ten virgins
- May 31 Things I’d rather tweet
- May 4 The 1960s ranch
- April 17 My angel is the centerfold
- April 13 So I took this quiz, see …
- April 8 Tab A, slot B
- April 7 Yet more reviews!
- April 6 Easing back into the groove
- April 5 Don’t you like ANYTHING?
- March 24 Smart Bitch Sarah Wendell…
- March 16 Throwing cats at your brother isn’t nice.
- March 13 The state of the art
- March 5 Branding redux: I get it now
- March 3 I would’ve called in sick …
- February 28 Oh my heck!
- February 27 Taking another bite out of Apple
- February 26 Toothpaste, packing tape, and e-books
- February 25 The dangers of homogeneity
- February 24 Tales from the cryptergarten
- February 21 “What the hell?”
- February 20 Caving to instinct and capability
- February 19 Finding time to write
- February 17 Still alive!
- February 17 The Urban Elitist interviews Tao Lin…
- February 14 The definition of honor
- February 13 Guest blogging and Tools of Change
- February 10 The book is dead. Long live the book.
- February 9 So THAT’S what I am.
- February 8 Go to bat for Zoe, folks
- February 7 I need to get out more
- February 5 Sadness is …
- February 3 Are authors like journals?
- February 2 Pimping … me! More reviews.
- February 1 The problem of genre: “Grit Romance”?
- January 30 Tent revival: ur doin it rong
- January 29 How valuable is knowledge?
- January 28 50-book challenge? Eh…
- January 27 Rabbit at rest
- January 27 Beethoven makes me peevish
- January 26 First, make it good
- January 25 Practicing what we preach
- January 25 e-Vangelism
- January 24 Li’l ol’ me?
- January 22 Sharing knowledge
- January 21 The role of urban fantasy …
- January 20 Unsolicited music on blogs
- January 19 The Proviso book “trailer”
- January 18 Buy a saddle
- January 17 Dear Santa,
- January 15 Kansas City: The Shuttlecocks
- January 14 This crow needs pepper or sumpin’
- January 14 Romance novel notes from 2008
- January 13 The forbidden Apple
- January 12 I knew it wasn’t just me.
- January 10 The project orgy
- January 9 Mama, I’m thirsty
- January 8 Where I put my brain
- January 7 Oz never did give nuthin’ to the tin man
- January 6 Rock rejection
- January 4 Book Review: The Duchess et al
- January 3 Faith and hope and elbow grease
- January 2 Kansas City: Randomidity 1
- January 1 Happy new year, pass the bleach
2008
- December 30 Creating e-books: The easy way
- December 29 A rose by any other name
- December 28 Book Review: Waiting for Spring
- December 23 Officially on holiday
- December 21 Creating e-books
- December 20 Shit or get off the pot
- December 19 The holiday TBR pile
- December 17 Jukeboxes and libraries
- December 16 What happened to the epic novel?
- December 15 Kansas City: Chiefs take my advice
- December 15 Viral money-and-politics rant
- December 14 Kansas City: Chiefs 12-14
- December 14 You can’t leave it alone<sup>1</sup>
- December 13 To be or not to be
- December 12 Road. Hell. Intentions.
- December 11 The rejection that makes me smile
- December 10 Judge. Book. Cover.
- December 7 The perfect bookstore
- December 6 Book Review: Zoe Winters’s “Kept”
- December 5 Oh, Tipper, where are you?
- December 4 Book Review: The Truth About Roxy
- December 3 The e-TBR
- December 2 More reviews for The Proviso!
- December 1 My way or the highway
- November 27 Happy Tryptophan Day
- November 26 Make it easy on the customer
- November 25 I chuckle
- November 24 Moratorium on manuscript buying
- November 23 Why I go to church
- November 22 Mormons and vampires
- November 19 Ah, homogeneity!
- November 15 The book as art
- November 14 There’s a moral in this somewhere…
- November 13 Book design: ur doin it rong
- November 13 Misckellaneous
- November 8 The Proviso reviews start coming in…
- November 4 I’m a series whore
- November 3 Drink the Kindle-ade
- October 31 The Proviso
- October 30 No, I want the pink-fur handcuffs, Officer.
- October 27 Book Review: Do the Math
- October 27 Kansas City: Chiefs 10-26
- October 25 Meh.
- October 20 Not feeling the love
- October 20 Doing my part to save a species
- October 16 For future reference
- October 14 Sex and money
- October 9 In which fashion pimps for pedophiles
- October 7 Kansas City: LDS temple update
- October 7 When does a blog stop being yours?
- October 6 Kansas City: Comfort food
- October 5 Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins’s $200M mistake
- October 4 Kansas City: LDS temple coming soon
- October 3 Target: Sony
- October 3 Abolish marriage
- September 30 Holding my nose to vote. Again.
- September 29 The cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
- September 28 The perfect purse
- September 26 Halloween 2008
- September 25 I yam what I yam
- September 23 Bad Google! Bad!
- September 22 So what’s stopping you?
- September 21 The springtime song
- September 19 Bits and bytes
- September 18 The gatekeepers, part 1
- September 15 I wouldn’t be a member of any club…
- September 14 So a writer walks into the ePub …
- September 13 And the gloves come off
- September 13 Beatrix Kiddo, feminist
- September 13 Got you on my mind
- September 6 Too much of a good thing
- September 4 A week!
- August 28 The DDJ
- August 27 Book Review: Married to a Rock Star
- August 24 “Little Lion Face”
- August 23 Pretty women
- August 22 More steampunk, please!
- August 21 Spiritual erotica
- August 19 “Mormon” as its own genre
- August 18 Religion. Money. Politics. Sex.
- August 17 Sassing back
- August 15 The pink-collar ghetto
- August 14 The 37-year-old virgin heroine
- August 13 Publishing potpourri for 100, Alex
- August 12 Getting the job done, take 2
- August 11 By gosh and by golly
- August 10 Blond heroes
- August 9 Thinging
- August 8 The price of nice
- August 7 Take my money, please!
- August 6 The voices in my head tell me to
- August 5 Decluttering
- August 4 What have you done for me lately?
- August 2 My guilty pleasure
- August 1 An embarrassment of half-assed riches
- July 31 Caution: warning label ahead
- July 30 Miss Jackson if you’re nasty
- July 29 Speaking of book reviews
- July 28 Getting the job done
- July 27 Genre, let me show u it
- July 26 PSA: Literarilywise
- July 25 Mormon-Vampire tale blows up intrawebs
- July 22 Common sense in publishing
- July 20 Kansas City: your basic geography
- July 19 Movies post-apocalyptic
- July 16 Book Review: Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander
- July 16 The authorial beau monde
- July 16 Kansas City: le sigh…
- July 12 Book Review: Always Listen to the Ravings of a Mad Woman
- July 9 Genre romance as trailblazer (as usual)
- July 9 Nekkid in public
- July 8 I gotta get me one’a dese
- July 5 Reading against type
- June 23 Bettie Sharpe’s “Ember”
- June 20 Thank you, Stephen King.
- June 19 “Eventually you will succeed.”
- June 13 I rode this train for so long … why?
- June 8 Hatchet, ax, and saw
- June 8 Book Review: Angel Falling Softly
- June 8 Speaking of politics…
- June 8 Niches are nice, but…
- April 29 I am so getting this book
- April 17 Go West!
- April 17 What the hell is Mormon romance?
