randomness Archives | Official Site for Heather Justesen and Heather Tullis https://heathersnotes.com/category/randomness/ Mystery to Make Your Heart Race | Romance to Make You Sigh Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:04:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://heathersnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-book-icon-32x32.png randomness Archives | Official Site for Heather Justesen and Heather Tullis https://heathersnotes.com/category/randomness/ 32 32 Favorite Christmas memories https://heathersnotes.com/2015/12/favorite-christmas-memories/ Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:52:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/favorite-christmas-memories/ The other night I was at a church women’s Christmas party and we had cards on the table with holiday questions we had to ask. One of them asked about our most memorable Christmas. You know what I’m talking about–that one year when things were different and unique, when things changed or you had a […]

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]]> 7 Tips on Staying Healthy Through the Holiday months from a Pro https://heathersnotes.com/2015/10/7-tips-on-staying-healthy-through-the-holiday-months-from-a-pro/ https://heathersnotes.com/2015/10/7-tips-on-staying-healthy-through-the-holiday-months-from-a-pro/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:00:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/7-tips-on-staying-healthy-throug/ I know Halloween is still a few days away, and the leaves here are still half green (I really love Kansas weather). Christmas started early for me this year as I worked on a Christmas-themed story, or two, and I’m testing out a bunch of Christmas recipes for my next book, Eggnog & Extortion. You’ll […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2015/10/7-tips-on-staying-healthy-through-the-holiday-months-from-a-pro/feed/ 2 How life derails us sometimes https://heathersnotes.com/2013/10/how-life-derails-us-sometimes/ Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:49:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/how-life-derails-us-sometimes-2/ The best laid plans always go awry, don’t they? I had intended to have my fourth Sweet Bites mystery, Eggnog & Extortion out by now, and it’s sitting on my hard drive at 13,000 words. I do have a lot of other stuff that’s sucked up writing time, though. About ten days after my last […]

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]]> Make Good Art https://heathersnotes.com/2013/01/make-good-art/ https://heathersnotes.com/2013/01/make-good-art/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:42:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/make-good-ar/ Neil Giaman is a writer of novels, comic books, children’s books, screenplays and many other things in multiple genres who has made a career of his writing for decades. He spoke at a university commencement last spring about being a creative person, making mistakes and sticking with it anyway. This is so inspiring to me […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2013/01/make-good-art/feed/ 1 Malaprop anyone? https://heathersnotes.com/2012/03/malaprop-anyone/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:44:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/malaprop-anyone-2/ My husband sent me this from Ars Technica. I had to share because it was such a terrific example of homonyms, misuse of phrases, and malaprops. It made me smile.

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]]> It’s all about customer service! https://heathersnotes.com/2011/09/its-all-about-customer-service/ https://heathersnotes.com/2011/09/its-all-about-customer-service/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:46:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/its-all-about-customer-service/ Have you ever wondered what it’s like to run a spa? I’ve been doing research on hotels, their departments and structure for a series of books I’m working on. Since it’s been over a decade since I worked at a hotel—and it wasn’t nearly the caliber of establishment that I wanted my fiction hotel to […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2011/09/its-all-about-customer-service/feed/ 2 The Writers’ Platform-Building Campaign https://heathersnotes.com/2011/08/writers-platform-building-campaign/ https://heathersnotes.com/2011/08/writers-platform-building-campaign/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:52:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/writers-platform-building-campaign/ As the world turns more and more toward social media, writers struggle to find a way to connect with people and get the word out about their latest projects, to meet others who are like us and move forward in the quickly shifting landscape of publishing. Lucky for us, there are people like Rachel Harrie, […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2011/08/writers-platform-building-campaign/feed/ 13 Book news, summer projects, and future fun https://heathersnotes.com/2011/06/book-news-summer-projects-and-future/ https://heathersnotes.com/2011/06/book-news-summer-projects-and-future/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:39:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/book-news-summer-projects-and-future/ Wow, I can’t believe it’s Thursday already. I had a great plan for my Medial Monday post, and intended to add a few more chapters of Blank Slate for your reading pleasure yesterday, but life got away from me. (I hate it when that happens.) Instead of blogging, I slept ALL DAY on Monday (the […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2011/06/book-news-summer-projects-and-future/feed/ 2 Curing Lemuelitis https://heathersnotes.com/2011/02/curing-lemuelitis/ Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:13:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/curing-lemuelitis/ This week one of the authors in my writer’s guild, Rob Ficiur, wrote this great post on a serious plague in our society: Lemuelitis Murmuronia. Here’s an excerpt: Years ago the plague of Poliomyelitis ravaged the world. Polio was the most dreaded childhood disease of the early to mid-20th century, causing death and paralysis to […]

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]]> What I learned from judging the Whitney Awards https://heathersnotes.com/2011/01/what-i-learned-from-judging-whitney/ https://heathersnotes.com/2011/01/what-i-learned-from-judging-whitney/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:04:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/what-i-learned-from-judging-whitney/ 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 Condie, James Dashner, Brandon Sanderson, Jessica Dy […]

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