So, just another weekend…sigh. NOT! Ahem, in case you missed it, go to http://chickeninthecar.com to preorder. All books ordered from that site will be signed; if you want your copy signed TO you and/or the members of your family, leave that information in the special instructions! Whee! IT’S A BOOK!
EXCITING, right? I am in so in love with my new digs! I hope you feel comfortable too. Pull up a chair…can I get you a drink or anything? I want to thank my son D for taking my design and recreating it in Photoshop with sharper colors than I could get while just using the program I was using, and for making my funky little social media icon stars. I also owe a HUGE thanks to my friend Ri–who rocks–and is a total genius. She helped me immensely with all of the back-end web craziness and I couldn’t have done this without her. I have a few minor kinks…
Heads up: more big changes are just around the bend around here! A little more than a year ago, I bought my own dot com. I had big plans to get this blog moved as soon as possible. Well, you know how that goes. Once I got busy with my book, I let the “moving the blog” thing go out of my head for a while, figuring that as long as the dot com is in my possession, I didn’t need to rush things. I started thinking about it again in January, and when I spoke to my very talented webmistress about helping me make the move, she told me…
The last few weeks have been a blur, mostly. I have been in the throes of editing (and editing*) the manuscript for my book. Here’s an approximation of how this process went (I can only write this to the best of my limited memory: I just mentioned how much of a blur my recent past has been, remember?): 1. Back in January, I edited the entire manuscript (240 pages, nearly 50,000 words) for what may have already been the fifth or sixth time before sending it to my publisher so she could have her editor mark it up. 2. On March 2 (was it only THIRTEEN DAYS AGO? Oy vey.),…
Yesterday was a pretty exciting day around here: J turned sixteen. As you know, sixteen is a huge milestone for a teenager, with the ability to get a driver’s license and all. J will be taking his driver’s test at the end of the month, because he still has about 7 permit hours to go, and the nine-month permit period isn’t over yet. At ANY rate, I thought–especially since we are not the type of parents who would buy our kids a car at sixteen, even if we could afford it–that I would make his traditional rainbow cake in the shape of a car. Taking the idea even further, I…