by Heather | Jan 31, 2011 | Main dish, recipes
In my pursuit of healthiness, I’ve been making up recipes in addition to playing with other people’s. The other day I wanted something pasta-ish, easy, and healthy, so I rummaged through my cupboards and came up with this: This was a big hit and I’ll...
by Heather | Jan 26, 2011 | Blog, randomness
Okay, first things first, the Whitney Awards is a program to recognize great writing by LDS people. Some of the books have LDS characters and themes, but many do not, and there were big national titles that qualified this year all over the place from Anne Perry, Allie...
by Heather | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog, Main dish, recipes
So I’ve been doing a diet game with a bunch of ladies where we break into teams and add up points for eating right and exercising throughout the week. A little healthy competition has helped me stay far more on track than trying to go it alone. Basically we eat...
by Heather | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog
Speech attribution can be a sticky thing sometimes. You want to make sure your reader knows who’s speaking, and you don’t want to get too repetitive, which leaves many writers searching for new and different ways to explain who’s talking. First,...
by Heather | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog, book review
I’m going to be honest here, when I heard the premise of this book I thought, really, another cheesy book about relief society sisters? Didn’t we leave those behind in the early days of LDS fiction? The truth is, yes, yes we did. Lipstick Wars is not...
by Heather | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, writing hints
I admit, if you look at my first book drafts, you’d be bored out of your skin because I didn’t understand the basics of plot. In fact, I had been writing for something like six years before attending a conference where I heard something that really helped...
by Heather | Jan 11, 2011 | Blog, writing goals
I’ve spent an awful lot of time dreaming of spring the past few weeks, and hope to dig out my seeds, peer into a few of my flower catalogs, and do some serious winter sowing. Never heard of winter sowing? Read my article here, it’s a two-parter. It’s...
by Heather | Dec 9, 2010 | Blog, book review
Last winter when I was traveling all over the state talking to students about being a writer, and teaching writing assemblies, I made a memorable (if insanely long) trip to the Four Corners area. Since we were broke, as most new writers are, my husband posted a...
by Heather | Dec 4, 2010 | Blog, giveaways
Okay, seriously, there are giveaways everywhere right now, so I thought I’d highlight a few. First, my critique partner Tristi Pinkston’s second book in the Secret Sisters cozy mystery series is coming out in about a month, and to celebrate, she’s...
by Heather | Dec 1, 2010 | Blog, Nanowrimo
I’m not sure where the past few weeks have gone except that they seem to have melted away much faster than the snow in my yard is likely to do. In the past few weeks I’ve completed the second draft of my Nano project and am more than halfway through a...
