Took a trip to Sam’s this afternoon. I hate going to Sam’s. It’s such a struggle not to come home with super-sized packages of things that I don’t have any place to store and get deathly tired of before they…
Author: Traci Gardner
Christmas Ornaments.
Took my trip to the Hallmark Holiday Open House this morning, and got 4 additional ornaments: Plus I had a gift certificate that if I spent enough (which I did) I got a free gift bag of goodies: Left to…
Copyediting Day
Today has been completely about going through the copyeditor’s markup of my manuscript. I managed to read through the manuscript twice, adding and deleting and responding to the different notes that the copyeditor made. It wasn’t too bad. She cut…
Halloween 2007
I’m not sure that I should put this online, but I’m trying to be brave. Here’s the Marketing/Professional Development Ensemble costume. We won the office competition :) Click To Play For the video to make sense, you also have…
WANT: write once, post often tool
Okay, here’s what I want: go to one page, write a blog entry/update, click “Post,” and the info merrily zings off to all the sites I want it to—Blogger, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Sort of the opposite of Plaxo. Here’s a…
Searching for Miracle Tools
I’ve finally got goals written out for FY08, and they call for a lot of tracking and logging and scheduling. My head is swimming as I try to figure out what tools will work for which part. I think that…
Restarting Life . . .
Returned to work today after taking sick leave every day but Tuesday last week. I think that I’m about 75% adjusted to the new drugs that I’m on, and I’ve had a good chance to rest and get stress-free. Today…
Upgrading . . .
must restart life tomorrow. need to repartition and reformat all aspects of existence. searching for install disks.
This Just In…
In today’s e-mail from NCTE’s Senior Editor on my book manuscript: “Attached are the reviews of your MS. As you’ll see, they’re all positive (yay!), with varying amounts of suggestions for revision.” Maybe I really and truly am an author!!!…
Incognito
I have blundered into the problem with an open, online existence. How do you say the things that you need to when everyone is watching? How does an author control her readers? Now I of all people know that you…