Reading What You Like
The following rant won’t be groundbreaking. I share the opinion of most thinking people I know on this topic, and many of them are stirred up about this today. But …
On Editing – Overused Words
For the last couple of weeks, I have been working flat out on a fresh edit of my current MS, triggered by editorial notes from my agent. I had hoped …
Random Friday
Yesterday, I stopped for a hot chocolate and a few minutes of quiet work in between one meeting and another. By the time I sat down and opened my computer, …
Fleeting Hours
Does anyone else ever wish they could put the need for sleep and food aside sometimes and stretch one day out for as long as it took to finish a …
On Barbara Park
You know, I hesitated to write this post today, because it’s been five days since Barbara Park died, making it “old news” in internet terms, even if it is the …
The Games We Play
A couple of years ago, I really wanted to finish the manuscript I was working on. I’d hit the part of the year when my day job threatens to take …
Welcome to the new site!
Hello, and welcome to my new digs. You’ll notice a few changes from my old site, most notably that I’m now blogging under my pen name, Kathy Kenzie. For those …
What I've Been Reading
For my birthday this year, I got this Moleskine book journal as a present. I’ve decided to use it to keep track of memorable reads, the ones that stay with …
Agent!
I’m very pleased (she said, understating the case terribly) to announce that I have signed with Nephele Tempest of The Knight Agency. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Nephele through …
Reading Romance
It’s been a heck of a summer here, filled with family and friends and travel and very, very little time online. Today, it’s absolutely pouring rain, a morning designed to …