Battle of the Betas

/ August 19, 2010

Monday, Kate Hart asked the Twitterverse one of the biggest questions ever*: Of course people did and Sarah Enni volunteered the first page of her YA sci fi/fantasy manuscript, Flute, for the Beta Battle. When I beta, I like to know where the victim author has concerns or questions. This isn’t saying I won’t crit other things as I find

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Four Vamps and a Gunslinger

/ August 18, 2010

Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you your link in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s question: What book ending would you rewrite and why? Argh… We’ve all had the experience of reading something that keeps us up for

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Deadliest Catch: Psycopathic Child Edition*

/ August 17, 2010

While staying at the Real World Cottage, we had the redneck neighbors from hell. Their yard housed tetanus and their porch was loaded up with, erm, crap. They were loud. They climbed onto the roof of their cottage more than once – with one of those times in a gorilla suit. The grandmother was nice enough to let us search

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Contest Alert

/ August 16, 2010

While I dig out from a week away, I urge you to go over to Holly Dodson’s blog where she’s having a Harry Potter themed contest in honor of her birthday. The contest is super simple: just state which HP house you’d belong to. Tomorrow’s blogging should happen as scheduled.

Greetings from the Real World House

/ August 13, 2010

Where the injuries keep stacking up. So far there’s been the badminton incident, a rubber ball to the ribs, and a water balloon to the groin. All injuries have been caused by Hubby and I’m afraid to see what’s going to happen now that he, the youngest SIL, and all the boys on the trip are out deep sea fishing

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