What's Up Wednesday

• Just did my first blog post over at Teen Shiver. Also another contest, so go check it out!


• The adopted bassett/boxer year old so still a puppy has exhausted herself and is finally asleep -ish at my feet so I can work. Shhhhh.


• It's cold outside! In Houston. But still in a drought.


• Wrote my first re-done chapter yesterday for the new WIP. I thought it would never come to me, but finally, it did.


• Go buy a copy of Lauren Myracle's Shine. Let the National Book Awards folks know that asking her to withdraw from the competition because somehow they couldn't tell the difference between Shine and Chime, by two diff authors w/very diff. names was hurtful and destructive and just kinda silly.


• Our YAHouston (YAHous) group is really shaping up and you will start hearing and seeing us very soon. Anyone interested in group signings, literacy events, workshops? Let me know! YAHouston is a Houston YA author collective. We are: Joy Preble, Mary Lindsey, Crystal Allen, Lynne Kelly Hoenig, Chris Mandelski, Sophie Jordan, Dotti Enderle, Jenny Moss, CC Hunter. Go YAHous!!


• And I'm back at work. Exhausted from this puppy thing. And trying to learn how to be a dog person.