Another Present for My Freelance Peeps

I’m a writer… you do the math. I cannot, off of the top of my head, tell you how to convert 1 hour and 39 minutes into a decimal to determine how much a client who is paying me hourly owes me. If you use a bidding site, they figure all of that out, but […]

My First Job Interview in a Zillion Years

Okay, not a zillion. But I’ve worked online for a long time. I haven’t had a face-to-face interview in a long time. Last week, I had a job interview with a professional creative ideas agency. I was nervous, but excited. Working online, I was tempted to look up things like “how not to screw up an […]

Freelance Summer

**Update: Very shortly after I wrote this I found a very cool virtual company called Fire Engine RED. Cross your fingers for me. I applied for a job with them! My summer has been hot, rainy, and slow. I spend a lot of time juggling everyone’s calendars so that they can be where they want […]

Welcome Author Vanessa Skye!

The strange and unusual world of inspiration   I have wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember. But like most wannabee novelists, life got in the way.   After high school, I got into university and studied journalism, not because I wanted to be a journalist in particular, but because […]

Tomorrow We Meet The Enemy Inside

Well, not the REAL enemy inside.  Vanessa Skye, author of the novel The Enemy Inside, will be making a stop here on her blog tour. Please stop by and enter the Rafflecopter giveaway to win a copy of the book. I’m reading it right now and am captivated! This tense mystery thriller is the first […]

Hey! I’m a Costume Designer! Sort of…

Drumline 2013 Worlds Check out my son’s group, the Hilton Winter Percussion Ensemble, as they win the gold competing against 61 other groups in the PSA division of the WGI World Championships in Dayton, Ohio last weekend. And yes, I made 5,836 versions of that turban until the director was happy. I’m absolutely certain the judges […]

Interview with Gene Doucette, Author of Fixer

Welcome to Gene Doucette, author of Immortal, Hellenic Immortal, and Fixer. Gene is probably pretty tired from hitting the web for his blog tour, but he made time for a few questions from me.       The Immortal books are very different from Fixer. Did you enjoy writing one more than the other? Adam […]