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I’m baaaa-aaaack! AKA The Golden Globes Fashion Roundup
Hello, darlings– no I’m not dead. Just been hanging more on FB and Twitter these days because I seem to only think in short bursts. Which sounds vaguely dirty, but that’s neither here nor there. Awards...
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Why yes, it’s my Oscar fashion roundup…
After my last thinky-thoughts, navel-gazing post, we’re back to the frivolity and snark of fashion. I’m nowhere near as good as the Fug Girls, but I do my part. Like the Golden Globes, I was left more...
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On Paying it Forward & the Power of Social Media
Yeah, yeah, I’m posting another blog. I can see you gaping from here. But this is important. Even more important than breaking down who wore what to the Oscars or the Golden Globes or shilling a new...
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Really? Do I look like the reunion type?
The other day, my older sister asked if I had any plans to attend my high school class’ twentieth reunion. After I pointed out that my twenty-fifth was two years ago (and waved the smelling salts under...
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Welcome…
Why yes, there’s been a redesign around these parts. It’s like any other living space- you get a little tired of the drapes or the wall color or even just feel the need to move the furniture around...
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Everyday Sexism, Part Who-the-Hell-Can-Keep-Track-Anymore?
This past week, writers Eileen Cook and Mere Smith (@eileenwriter & @EvilGalProds, respectively on Twitter- go, follow, I’ll wait) wrote some remarkable posts on their blogs dealing with, in...
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Guess what I did?
So yesterday, I pledged a considerable amount of money to Janice Whaley’s latest Kickstarter campaign. Yes, I’m privileged to call Janice my friend and so of course, I’m going to support her in any way...
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Another Day, Another Rejection (or two)
In light of all the publicity regarding the whackaloon wannabe writer who attacked the literary agent who rejected his work, I thought I’d offer my own response in the form of how I react to rejection....
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Emmys Fashion Roundup
We got the depressing, down-in-the-dumps post out of the way, so now we can return to what’s really important: my thoroughly matters-in-no-way-to-no-one burblings on red carpet fashion. I mean, I’m...
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Yeah, publishers really CAN do that.
The latest kerfluffle to hit the net with respect to publishing has, of course, to do with The Smoking Gun’s report of Penguin suing several authors in order to recoup advances. Lot of authors (who...
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And in the continuing saga of “Life is weird…”
It’s been… a week. To put it mildly. I returned from a wildly successful and incredibly entertaining weekend at the Surrey International Writers Conference (writers, seriously, go to this conference. I...
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2013 Golden Globes Fashion Roundup (Quickie Edition)
Far be it from me to not do a roundup, but this year, it has to be a quickie, because a) I’m on deadline (and to quote Bill the Cat: ACK! Pbbbllllltttt!!!!) and b) I was spectacularly underwhelmed this...
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A Wee Valentine’s Story
It began, as such things do, with a conversation on Twitter. The lovely and talented Janice Whaley was passing the time as she waited (and waited… and waited…) for her turn to audition for The Voice....
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The Great Wattpad Experiment
So, some of you may have noticed (probably more of you have not) that for the past two weeks, I’ve been Up To Something. That something being I’ve taken a manuscript of mine, Between Here & Gone...
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Quick Update on the Great Wattpad Experiment
Just a few random observations on Between Here & Gone noted this morning: I’ve received more reviews and “votes” (1228) which, let’s equate them to ratings on amazon or Goodreads, and “comments”...
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“There but for the grace of God…” (Gracefully Gone by Alicia Coppola)
I’m sitting here with my first cup of coffee of the morning and mulling over a book I finished last night, Gracefully Gone, by Alicia Coppola. Honestly, I’ve been mulling over this book and writing...
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Vintage Hollywood (A Wee Drabble of sorts)
Subtitled: what happens when Barb is operating on 2.5 hours of sleep and sees a photograph that captures her fancy. The photograph in question: All credit to Arlene Wszalek (@Wzzy) who had posted a...
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Where it began (Dorian)
After more than six weeks of semi-voluntary writing hiatus, I’m finally ready to get back to it. I’ve got several projects I could work on, but the one that seems to be poking its head up out of the...
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Reacquainting myself
One of these days, I’m going to believe I’m actually pretty good at this writing gig. Where I left off in Dorian: Faubourg Marigny A mournful blues slide greeted Alex as she made her way up Ma...
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Tales of Survival (or G.I.S.H.W.H.E.S. is over)
So my first official involvement with G.I.S.H.W.H.E.S. (or the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen) has come to an end. First off, as some of you might be asking, “What in the...
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