http://rebecca.agiewich.net Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:14:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As usual, I continue to blog more (though not enough!) at SparklySparkly where I'm afraid you'll be doomed to look at pictures of my new pug in cute costumes and outfits until kingdom come. Tough. Pugs were made to put costumes on. In fact, I'm thinking of trying to get ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/write-on-the-sound-with-me-in-october/ Not too much to report here in AuthorLand. The new novel inches ever-so-slowly-and-painfully-forward. It did have the working title "The Rock Star" but the other day I walked past the bargain bin outside Twice Sold Tales and saw a big, deliciously trashy-looking hardback by Jackie Collins entitled "Rock Star!" ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/me-and-jackie-collins-great-minds-think-alike/ I don't have much to say about being an author these days. I am working on a second novel that will take about five million years to complete and have taken a break from marketing ye olde BreakupBabe lately. In the quarterly "royalty" statements I receive, however, the number ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/dolphins-whales-and-royalty-statments/ I recently posted on my other blog about my dreamy new writing gig at Mount Rainier National Park... Also -- try to contain your excitement -- but the full archives have been restored to Breakup Babe! Lacking a better technical solution, they are all on one HUMONGOUS page, so you might ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/breakupbabe-archives-restored/ All I can say about the writing life these days is that I'm writing. Not well. Not for money. But I'm plugging away, sitting down every day to try to find a story that sings and characters that aren't boring, obnoxious, and superficial. That's the fiction-writing life anyway. In other, less ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/mumblings-from-a-gray-monday/ I just posted over at SparklySparkly today...so ENJOY. And if you live in Seattle, don't forget to stop by Peridot on Friday to drink wine, shop for beautiful clothes and jewelry, and buy my book. Oh you have my book already you say? Well doesn't someone on your gift list need ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/breakupbabe-the-perfect-holiday-gift/ One of the contradictions of my Gemini personality is that while I crave constant adventure, variety, and excitement, I am also a big sucker for routine. Take, for example, the following: National Novel Writing Month - which we are in the thick of as we speak! I love it that someone ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/o-glorious-routine/ National Novel Writing Month is here once again and this time I am determined to get a draft of a novel done! The first time I did it was in 2003, when I wrote the first draft of my soon-to-be-bestselling-any-day-now-c'mon-people-and-just-buy-it-will-you novel, BreakupBabe. Oh did that first draft suck and I ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/national-novel-writing-month-is-here/ 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 ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/random-notes-on-the-writing-life/ Well, well, what do you know - BreakupBabe has become a collector's item! You know what this means, right? You better buy up some copies FAST, have me sign them, and then you can auction them off for lots of money! Why you might even be able to purchase that ... http://rebecca.agiewich.net/blog/breakupbabe-now-a-collectors-item/