I find name-dropping incredibly embarrassing. I’ve never felt the undying need that some folks have to rub elbows with the rich and famous. Money and fame don’t make people nice or generous or good or bad. Seriously, everybody puts their shoes and/or stockings on the same way—sometimes those shoes just happen to cost over $600. …Read More
I was all set to write about entropy today, but the subject suddenly feels rather depressing to me. Entropy isn’t much fun at all, is it? Entropy is creeping chaos. Ew. I prefer my chaos to be more straightforward than that! So, meet Scout. Scout is a ten week-old black and tan rat terrier mix …Read More
CJ Lyons is one very busy thriller-writer chick. Her cross-genre novel (thriller, medical suspense, steamy romance) LIFELINES debuted back in early March, and she’s been in constant motion ever since. Once upon a time she was a pediatric ER doc. Now, she spends her time writing, traveling, teaching other folks how to write and being …Read More
Cinderella is my new favorite horror movie. Scary as all get-out, yet oddly beautiful. The actors are visually perfect, and completely committed to the story so that even when the film dips into the occasional horror-film cliche, it works. It’s a riff on the 1960 Georges Franju film, Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a …Read More
I received some amazing news a couple of weeks ago and have been dying to share it. Now I can! I’ve been invited to the 29th annual Kentucky Women’s Writers Conference in Lexington. It happens in September and I’ll be teaching a workshop, which I always enjoy. But the really exciting news is that I’ll …Read More
So, I’ve been meme’d. And because the adorable Sophie Littlefield asked, I cannot say no. While I’ve had a myspace blog for well over a year and this one for a while, I’m still not clear on the rules of these things. Do I have to continue the same meme? Can I change it? What …Read More
So, what’s up with the spider? I was looking for images from Bowling Green, Kentucky as I spent some time there this weekend for the Southern Kentucky Bookfest. Horses in pictures of Kentucky are so overdone–and Bowling Green is stunning and rural, but not particularly horsey. While searching the Internet for something appropriate, I came …Read More