First book deal!
Okay, so I've been sitting on this news for a while now, waiting for various details to be hammered out. Sitting on it so long, in fact, that this announcement feels almost anticlimactic. But, really, how can there be anything anticlimactic about announcing MY FIRST BOOK DEAL.Yes, I have been offered a two book deal! Someone is actually paying me to write! Someone is making a bet that readers will put down their hard earned cash to buy something I wrote! Wow. (Something more than a short story, that is. To read my first published short story, order

Blogorama!
Okay, so I've been sorely neglecting this blog of late, but today I'm blogging on both Drunk Writer Talk, (about Mad Men), and on Nobody Writes It Better, (about Remembrance Day).

Ready, Set, Go!
About to embark on a rapid writing marathon a la Nano. (Okay, I have signed up for NaNoWriMo, but can't be an official "winner" because I'm already 4K into the book, and hope to be at least 15K in before the end of October and the official NaNo start. But definitely plan to get at LEAST 50K done in November, too.If you're on NaNo, be my buddy. I'm on there as mmcgowan.Wish me luck!

Agent Hunting Exposed
I'm blogging about the great agent hunt over on DWT today. Who is rejecting whom?I had fun with it. Check it out. :-)

Introducing.... Chevy Stevens
About 3 years ago, I sat across the aisle from a woman during a Donald Maass workshop at the Surrey Writers conference.She was so strikingly attractive she was the kind of girl a girl like me almost wants to hate instantly, or at least make assumptions about (shame on me). ;-) But soon I noticed we were nodding at the same insights from Maass, smiling at the same things, rolling our eyes in the same places, and even making eye contact a few times. Writer flirting?We talked during the first break, found out more about each other and each others writing, and became instant friends, staying in touch via e-mail since then.So, I couldn't have been more thrill