Susan Adrian

News just broke--at least here--that Barack Obama is going to walk in our 4th of July parade. Here. In Butte, Montana. In our parade. In whi...

And yay, made my monthly goal on MELODY. Now I may eat cake. Okay, a second piece of cake. Stolen from the kitchen. The end piece. :)

And the winner of a signed copy of My Lord and Spymaster, through the services of random.org , is... Lori Benton!! Congratulations, Lori! Se...

Are you ready? Are you? Are you? Drawing in 5 minutes. RANDOM drawing, Beth and Stephanie. {cough}

As someone pointed out, my date for Monday is incorrect--Monday is actually June 30th. AND I've got an appointment Monday morning, so I ...

Joanna Bourne writes excellent books. You don't have to take my word for it--check out just about any review of The Spymaster's Lady...

Guess what?? My esteemed friend and inestimable writer Joanna Bourne has a new book coming out--and to celebrate, tomorrow I'm going to ...

Last night I finally got to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . I. Loved. It. Several times during the movie I said ...

Angel on shoulder: Oh, goodie, it's almost lunchtime. You can crank out your wordcount on Melody. Devil: The Lee Child book is in your...

I'm playing with Twitter . Why? (a) because I can (b) because I'm supposed to be doing something else. Of course.

Okay, I have to do one of these, just because of the RANDOM searches people have been using to find my blog. These are actual phrases people...

Evidence that I wasn't lying about Spring. Oh wait, Summer! Well, it still looks like Spring around here--these are from our yard this w...

Because not only were you funny as hell, but you were willing to ALSO read stories for Thomas the Tank Engine. You rocked.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about. Much better. After Child understood that I required a crown for this morning's "disc...

I was nominated for an award this morning. It's not the first time--in fact, I think this is the third--but it's a shock every time....

I appear to be having one of those weeks when I can't post anything of substance. Snips of thought are all I have, so snips are what you...

writing MELODY. And it's already completely shifting, but that's okay. And I went to look at a page of JENNA, and I totally got suck...

Melody has a last name! Poor thing. It's Ziditor. Our family name--Dad's name--is Ziditor. It's Romanian for maker, or creator, ...

MM, aka The Author Known as Jenna Riley. :) Congratulations, and thanks to everyone who entered!! I lurve my blog readers. MM, email me at s...

My first post on this blog was March 9, 2006. I was still banging away then on a certain medieval book, The Murderess's Tale . I'd n...