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What do I do with this big, open space?

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

I love our new house, don’t get me wrong, but there are things that builders are doing nowadays that either baffle me or are aesthetically pleasing and yet practically annoying. Eight foot ceilings fall into that latter category. Have you ever tried to change a lightbulb while balancing on a flimsy Ikea bar stool? I [...]

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Characters I Would (And Wouldn’t) Like to Be

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck
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Let’s talk action-gals, shall we? Because there was a point in my life, when I thought that being Buffy or Sydney Bristow (Alias is my current pm comfort watch) would be so dang cool. I mean, they’re smart (even though Buffy always says she isn’t), they look great in all sorts of clothes, and they [...]

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Whine Person of the Year 2010

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Who will it be? Every year, the Whine Sisters choose our own Whine Person of the Year. Sometimes it’s the whiniest person. Sometimes it’s the jerkiest. Sometimes it’s the best and most outstanding. Some years, we’re cheeky with our award, like the years we chose Tom Cruise, and Lynn Spears (Britney’s mom) as our Person [...]

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The Extraordinary Kathleen Givens

by Sherri Browning Erwin

As most of you know, we lost our very dear friend and sister Kathleen Givens on January 1st this year. It was shocking, since she had been in apparent good health with no major concerns, and she’d been so looking forward to 2010. And of course it was very sad, because we love her. Everybody [...]

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Whine Sisters Shake Things Up

by Julia London

It’s been almost a year since we brought in some Champion Whiners and launched the New and Improved Whine Sisters. We really like our blog.  We like each other.  We like whining. Recently, we had a private online whine about our blog, because what’s the point of blogging if you’re happy with everything?  We said, [...]

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Jammie Fashion: Fashion Friday

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

I’m on deadline, and thus, spending as much time in my jammies as possible–staying in them until as late as possible in the day since I get up and go to the computer until it’s time to do school with the kids, and changing into “real” clothes only when it’s time to go out for [...]

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Writer’s Corner-Writing with a partner

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

So, for a while now I’ve been working on what I’ll call the Project with a friend. This is the second time I’ve written with a partner, not counting writing prologue’s and epilogues with Kathleen and Dee for our Hell With The Ladies and Hell On Heels anthologies, or with Kathleen for this month’s Just [...]

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Not Really Pop Culture Monday…

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

So I looked at my calendar wrong, and thought I was writing about Good Buys, which would be an easy subject for me because I found the Best Freaking Buy Ever recently, both because I need it desperately as I finish up this book, and also because it’s free. It’s Mac Freedom, and it’s this [...]

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Question of the week: Conferences. Love ‘em? Hate ‘em?

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

As you read this (unless you’re reading it very late in the day), I’ll be participating on a panel and delivering the keynote speech at the Tarrant County College writer’s conference. And on Friday, I was at the Irving Club’s Tea in Lockhart speaking about being an author (I’m writing this on Thursday, but I’m [...]

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The Internet has Destroyed my Pop Culture IQ

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

So, you’d think that the Internet–with all it’s connectivity and info at your fingertips yada yada yada–would have made me more pop culture aware. It hasn’t. Now, granted, I’ve never been the most pop culturally aware gal on the planet. I don’t think I’ve ever watched the Grammy’s (the Oscars are a different story–I used [...]

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Question of the Day-What the heck is this???

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

I have a tendency to not only work late, but to also scribble notes to myself that end up scattered around my desk. Usually, they’re about the work-in-progress, especially if I’m in revisions. I’ll have a gazillion Post-its about Things To Do as I’m revising, and I know when revisions are complete when I’ve a) [...]

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