Celestial Chicken Blog

Word comes today that Amazon caved to pressure from Roy Blount, Jr., president of the Author’s Guild. They are removing text-to-speech functionality from the Kindle 2. If an author asks to let text-to-speech be used with his/her book, then it will be turned on for that book. Otherwise, the default will be [...]

Neil won’t let this one go…the continued argument from the Author’s Guild over the text-to-audio functionality of the new Kindle 2 keeps raising Neil’s dander. And he keeps pushing his point of view. As an author, this is encouraging. As a provider of disability services, this is dance-inducing for me. I am [...]

Today is week nine of the Two Year Novel Class. It has been a slow proccess, and some of the exercises are on the lame side, but I understand that that is the way it is supposed to work. Week 8 we finally got to write something more than a list of things, [...]

When I wrote my 2006 NaNo Novel, it was on a whim. I had a sort of a story laid out in my head, but a few days before Nano started, another idea practically lashed me to my computer, and I couldn’t help but write it. Unlike my other work, it was a [...]

Great article by Wally Lamb on Oprah.com.
Check it out and then come back and read my comments. I’ll wait.
Back? Good.
I like the idea of writing an autobiography to get rid of your own personal demons. As I prepare to sit with my mom to ask questions about my family [...]

I’ve written about this on both my tech and disability services blog this past week, but thought I’d mention it here. I know not everyone reads those two blogs who may stop by here. As a writer, copyright issues always catch my attention. But being a well-versed self-published woman, I also have [...]

A few people have been asking me that. I have no good excuse. None. I’ve been reading, of course. I finished four books in the month of January, and have started one for February. As you know this was my new year’s resolution, to read two books a month. [...]