My daughter got a full ride scholarship to the local university. (I homeschooled her for 2 years because she was too far ahead of her class and being abused by classmates (not just taunts, but having her hair cut off) My second daughter got a semester of homeschooling for social and religious reasons (we’re a…

I started in the small press. No agents and no self-pub. The genre I started in is mostly women writing for women (although the men have discovered it and wandered in). I always use my very feminine name, when most authors use initials or neutral names. I decided that if I ever subbed to New York, it was going to be…

How about an anti-hero who is not only a rapist, pimp, drug dealer, politician and killer, he later takes up cannibalism? (in fairness, he considers it a bad habit and only indulges on special occasions)

I did the “Biggest fear/extrapolate trends I see” thing combined with “what I used to believe”. The result was one of the best novels I ever wrote. I keep struggling with the rest of the series.

I started writing because I had thrown a John Norman book across the room one too many times in frustration at the prose and…

My own childhood trauma, thank you very much. And yeah, I know how fast it moves. My youngest is 15 and a half. I’m almost done with a project begun 24 years ago. And I’m ready to be done with this phase and on to the Advisory Stage.
As long as they have basic table manners, what’s the difference?

I don’t believe in family meals. I barely believe in meals. And I do not talk while eating. It’s enough that I drop food on their plates and they return the dishes to they sink promptly.

Passion and pleasure are very different things. I write novels. This means that I bash my fingers on keys until I have an arthritis flare, pace while I work out plotting, yell at the ceiling and generally kill myself during the first draft. This is not fun. But there is nothing I would rather do.

Even in my darkest…

No question. Everything practical one needs when starting out. I had it and Betty Crocker and found I used this one much more. (the peanut butter cookies are sitting on my table right now)

Tortillas. Half the price of the grocery store for the same brand.
Jamaican Beef patties.
Greeting cards
striped shortbread cookies
ziplock bags
Craft yarn (a rare item)
Candles. These days, the first stop before every Sabbat is the Dollar Tree, to make sure we have the right candles.
White Rain shampoo and condition.…

I used to mess with a bunch of those “make money taking surveys” websites. Now, I do only a couple, one of which gives me points just for walking into stores I already have to go into for work. Two seconds to open an app, (cash value of the points: 10-20 cents, works out to about $180/hr) and I’m good.

The general opinion is A. My personal opinion is A'.

There's always Realfact or Goodfact.

There is a woman I dislike. Something in me stands up and shrieks like a tribble in a room full of Klingons when she walks in the door. I have no reason for this. I've been analyzing the phenomenon for years. She is never anything but nice to me. But red-alert klaxons and a need to bolt fill my mind when she opens her…

Now save us money if we're already doing all that, buying in bulk, couponing only on things that are cheaper than the lowest price when the coupon is used and shopping at off-brand groceries and salvage stores.

Sorry, it's always the same advice. Nobody has the "Cut you're food bill when you're already at $200/month…

I did. Homophobic church. Child molesting uncle. Abusive stepfather. Stultifying small town. It's all in there I have friends who call the first 1/3rd "Angel's religious issues, let her show you them."

I find it interesting that much of the South is still orange. the places that have any green are cities, usually with universities in them: Fayetteville AR, Nashville and Oak Ridge TN, Huntsville AL. I live in one of the deep orange counties (Just up the road from Lee County, I used to deliver auto parts there) and…

I worried about getting a prius. My husband and I are both 6' tall, and have a pair of 6'3" sons, and a wide-hipped daughter. But it turned out to be very comfortable, with adequate room for everyone. Not much power, but 53-57 mpg, and no gas burnt while stuck in construction zones helps. It can do up to 80. (shh, he…

Gas prices in my city are varying by as much as 25cents a gallon. I have a general pricepoint in my head (what my local grocery is charging), and if I see cheaper gas when I am out and need some, I will fuel there instead. I don't go out of my way, it's more a "Hey, I'm at a quarter tank and they're 15 cents cheaper…

I think a year is a better gauge, especially with seasonal stuff. No, I haven't worn my my Halloween socks or tee-shirts in 6 months. But I will come fall. (of course that falls under "fits and looks great")

I use it for a variety of things: recipes, crafts, writing tools, tracking the books and movies I consume and the crafts I make each year. I use it as a photo album for novel-casting, and to find weird and unusual ideas for stories. I use it to find new and interesting things about my faith. I like Pinterest a lot.