Hello all,
What can I tell you about the writing life these days?

*I still do most of my writing at Uptown Espresso in lower Queen Anne, where my current favorite drink is a grande, extra-hot soy latte. (Oh God, that is so boring, please forgive me. I think you’ll find the next tidbit more juicy…)

*Recently, the first person I ever kissed (I mean, really kissed, because I don’t count that horrible experience with my first high school boyfriend drooling all over me two years previously) saw the copy of BreakupBabe that is currently displayed in one of my other favorite coffee shops, El Diablo, and contacted me - after 21 years! We met while working in this theater - which is now very posh but was once a seedily elegant Art Deco place where you could see good indie films — and shared our fateful kiss in the balcony.

*I have an idea for a new novel. Maybe. Whether or not this turns out to be the *one*, you can expect any novel I write in the near future to include the following themes: rock music, high school friendships, obsessive crushes, and pop culture.

*I’ve discovered that finding an idea to write about is a lot like dating. There are a lot of false starts and initial excitement; a lot of thoughts like “this is the one!” before you realize that your idea might look all shiny and pretty but is, in fact, not for you. Even when you DO find the right idea, as I did with BreakupBabe, you have to endure a lot of initial angst (the first draft of that novel was SOOOOO bad; come to think of it, the second and third weren’t so great, either), and it’s only by really believing the idea that you can work through that.

*I envy those slutty writers who have one good idea right after another - bam, bam, bam - but I’m just not one. I’m saving myself for the right idea, I guess. But it’s sure hard to be patient sometimes.