Vonna | October 26, 2009
It is nine o’clock in the morning, and the world has grown cold and gray. Thunder rumbling in from the Gulf of Mexico lets me know we are in for a storm.
The big, elderly oak trees at the back of my yard whip in the wind, their knobby, arthritic limbs twisting and squeaking. Hard, thin [...]
Vonna | October 19, 2009
Before I get started on my usual blog I want to take a moment to show off the woodworking project that my son made for me this weekend. He cut all the wood using hand tools– no power saws! He used screws from my dad’s old tool box and made the hole nice and smooth [...]
Vonna | October 12, 2009
One of the fun things about reading new books is getting a chance to meet the book’s author or an editor who worked on that book or maybe the agent who represented it. These opportunities usually come through author appearances at bookstores. Also, since I love reading and writing middle grade and young adult books, [...]
Vonna | October 5, 2009
I have a rather horrible analogy for critique groups to share with you today.
Now, I have no idea if this is true, and I have no intentions of experimenting in order to find out, but the idea goes like this:
If you put a frog into a pan of boiling water, it will jump out immediately.
But, [...]
