Word Nerdiversary!
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Acceptable Stereotypes? Since When?
I can remember one time I have admitted my high school and not gotten a reaction along the lines of how I must be a rich, snotty brat. It was about ten years ago when a woman in the city we lived in at the time was researching Utah schools because she knew that th

Writing Journey: Audio Double Hockey Sticks
I entered the publishing world at a rather odd period: right as cassette tapes were making their exit and CDs were making their debut.As a result, my first novel's audio was put on cassette. My second was available on both cassette and CD, and my third was only on CD. I was right at the transition period.This was also a period where nearly every Covenant novel was available in both print and on audio. Slight problem, however: audio sells less, but has new costs like paying an actor to perform the thing, so they always insisted that the author abridge t

WNW: 2009 Word of the Year
Each year, The New Oxford American Dictionary picks a new word that has become a part of the lexicon and declares it the word of the year. Past popular words of the year you might recognize include:2005: truthiness (a word invented and popularized by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report)2003: metrosexual (my husband's not, thank goodness)2000: chad

Winner, Winner!
Quick announcement for the footrest winner, and then I have to get back to judging a contest for my local library. (Something I've been doing annually for six years now. Quite fun, I must say.)I kept a clear list of every single entry on an Excel spreadsheet to make sure every single entry was accounted for (every comment, tweet, FB mention, blog post). I used Random.org to pick the winner. It picked: Entry #19: Mandy!Yea, Mandy!