http://annaalexander.net/wordpress Live for the day. To hell with the rest. Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:15:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_214" align="alignright" width="150" caption="I went for these."][/caption]   Didn't we just have Halloween? Where has this year gone? I can't believe it's been six months since I last posted. It has been so long, I forgot the password to log in to the site.  What have I been doing with my ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2011/03/what-the-hell-its-march-already-or-the-new-shoes/ One short day in the Emerald City... Well, its more like three, long, arduous days actually. It is that time of year. The Emerald City Writers Conference is here again, and as I look back at the past year, I can't believe how much I have grown as a writer. A ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/09/emerald-city-writers-conference-2010/ Once a week I have an hour to kill between picking up my children. As I searched for something to do during that hour, I stumbled upon the latest version of Let's Make a Deal with Wayne Brady on the television.  The last time I saw this show I was ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/09/the-state-of-the-economy-illustrated-by-lets-make-a-deal/ Last Saturday I typed "The End" for the last time (hopefully) on my superhero story. Now the real work begins. It's time to start collating my list of agents to target, write the synopsis, and work on the all important query letter. The Emerald City Writers Conference is in a ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/09/superheroes-are-done-and-now-its-time-to-get-to-business/   [caption id="attachment_195" align="alignright" width="164" caption="The Joust"][/caption] The chicklets and I headed to the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire this past weekend in Buckley. It was the second year at this new location and the organizers really did a fantastic job of correcting a few of the issues from last year, mainly the trough ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/08/weekend-at-the-renaissance-faire/ I survived my first nationals experience at the RWA conference in Orlando last week. It's been five days since I've returned and I've just climbed out of the mountain of chaos that exploded at work while I was gone. And of course it was all my fault because I dared to leave ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/08/rwa-nationals-or-oh-my-god-what-am-i-doing-here/ I managed to break away from endless days of edits, workshops and contest judging to finally do a bit of reading. Of course the book in question was one I couldn’t wait, yet dreaded reading. It was with great trepidation that I picked up JR Ward’s latest Lover Mine, from ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/07/what-ive-read-lover-mine-by-jr-ward/ I’m here. Really. I’m alive and gasping for air as I briefly lift my head from my works in progress. Yes, I said works. What have I been doing these last few weeks? Writing, writing and more writing. Or I should say rewriting, rewriting and more rewriting. Mixed in with ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/06/willy-wonka-speak/ Between my day job, workshops and writing, I feel like I never stop. And that's not about to end any time soon. I've just completed a platform building workshop offered by Ann Charles and Jacquie Rodgers over at 1st Turning Point. I should now be an expert at marketing myself and my ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/05/nose-to-the-grindstone/ I stayed up until 2 a.m. last night finishing Kresley Cole's latest, Pleasure of a Dark Prince, part of the Immortals After Dark Series. I love this series. The heroines are strong, independent, with just the right amount of snark, and the heroes are completely drool worthy. On this, I was ... http://annaalexander.net/wordpress/2010/05/what-ive-just-read-pleasures-of-a-dark-prince/