• Today and Tomorrow

    August 20, 2012 /

    Tomorrow I start back to Montana. It should take two days. Actually I can do it in one, but I want to stop overnight and go to Costco before I go home. So I probably will. On the really cool…

  • Sweet cool down

    August 18, 2012 /

    Today the temps in Salem dropped significantly. It was a relief. It even rained. The dogs got out for a good walk and we ran errands and explored and did a bit of geocaching for International Geocaching Day. And we…

  • August 16, 2012 /

    Graveyard Shift has a great post today on cop slang. Really great for writers. Bookmark it and remember. I got word today that it is now certain that Blood Winter will be the last Horngate book. The positive thing is…

  • Snippet

    August 15, 2012 /

    From the work in progress: “You ought to kill this new ambassador,” Olyeron told his father absently as he moved a stone on the merti board. “Soon. Where’s he from?” Seavik watch his son beneath lowered lids. “Is that opinion…

  • a scare and shouting

    August 13, 2012 /

    Yesterday the dog decided that he could not put an ounce of weight on his back leg–the same one that had a ligament replacement just a short while ago. Today he’s limping a bit on it. We’re carrying him in…

  • Back to school time

    August 9, 2012 /

    Every year, like clockwork, for years, I always felt the urge to go clothes shopping in the end of August and beginning of September. It was knee jerk. And on top of that, the fact was/is, I’ve pretty much been…

  • trailer life

    August 7, 2012 /

    I suck at living in a trailer. I mean a travel trailer. Four of us in it. For a month. Yeah. And two of us are children. Bouncy loud children. And I am feeling like crap tonight, and I don’t…

  • A book giveaway

    August 5, 2012 /

    You can win a book! You can choose Blood Winter or others. Short and Sweet reviews is having a one year Blogoversary giveaway. So check it out.

  • checking in from the lovely coast of Oregon

    August 2, 2012 /

    We’ve been having a good time. It’s misty in the morning and sunny in the afternoons. Been walking down to the various beaches and enjoying ourselves enormously. Well, mostly. See, I’m sometimes clutzy. My nickname is Clodzilla. Here’s why: That…

  • Getting ready for the coast

    July 27, 2012 /

    I finished the copy edits on Blood Winter this week and sent them back. It’s crazy how much of that book has been written or otherwise in this travel trailer. Not exactly the best atmosphere for working, and no reference…