by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 17, 2011 | Blogging
One of the fun things about blogging on WordPress is the “site stats” page. I look at it to see how many people read my blog and to see “who” might be reading my blog. It shows me how many people who have read, or at least clicked on, which...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 16, 2011 | Uncategorized, Writing
It started on Monday when a blog titled “Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA.” (To unpack the acronyms…YA is “Young Adult” and the other is “Gay, Lesbian,Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer”) Basically,...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized, Writing
Okay, go ahead and groan out loud. My mind is sort of mushy today due to the fact I spent most of it in a semi-comatose state with my arms wrapped around my sick son. There’s a lot of guilty pleasure in this. I mean, who really wants their child to be sick? Not...
![Sweet And Sour Pickles A Crunchy Tasty Hit]()
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 12, 2011 | Food, Uncategorized, Writing
I just got back from Las Vegas and another writing conference yesterday. It was a tiring but rewarding weekend. I met dozens of people I’d heard of and whose work I had read. I also talked to umpteen editors and publishers–tossing around story ideas and...
![Sweet And Sour Pickles A Crunchy Tasty Hit]()
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 6, 2011 | Cooking, Uncategorized
I was at the produce section looking for bananas when I felt compelled to pick up a couple of pickling cucumbers the produce guy, P.J., had just put out. I rolled the cool bumpy veggies in my hand, thinking over the sagacity of getting into a canning project. P.J....
Recent Comments