Susan Adrian

So you may have noticed (if you're not reading this on Google Reader), that I changed things up here a little yesterday. I get bored pre...

I had a full-circle moment this morning. I was driving to work after dropping Child off at school, loaded up with 6 packages of cookies to b...

I've been in a bit of a funk the past few days. Don't know why, exactly--it happens occasionally. Doesn't usually last 3 DAYS, b...

If you need my brain, it will be here: Brains need vacations too.

Sorry, I had to take the SALVAGED teaser down. It's a work very much in progress, after all. Thanks so much for all your kind words, tho...

I think it's time for a little Friday love-fest. Today I'm sharing the love for: Movie: The Tale of Despereaux . I watched it with C...

I'm back at my desk for my first full day of work in a week! Between me being sick, our mini-trip, and Child being sick yesterday (she s...

I'll be away for a couple of days, so no posts here. In the meantime, enjoy a couple of blogs I recently stumbled across that you defini...

*Note: This is in a series of sock-knockers posts, trying to analyze why particular books stand out above the rest for me. Click on the labe...

I was going to do a post today on my day job--I realized I've never really talked about being a technical/scientific editor, and there m...

Today is a day of good writer-friend news that I can't help but share! First, my great friend Victoria Schwab (who I got to hang out wit...

What's that? You're tired of waiting for the winners to be announced? Really, if you're breaking into publishing I should do you...

Wow, you guys rocked that. We're working on judging the pile o' excellent entries. Winners will be announced sometime this week.* *I...

It's Tiara Day!! Tiara Day is all about creating positive energy, being a little silly, and having fun. To play along put a tiara on you...

Are you ready? (this is a waterlily tiara from Leigh-Anne McCague tiaras . Isn't it gorgeous?) Tiara Day Writing Contest: RULES The cont...

This is the second in the famous* series of sock-knockers posts. Because these books knocked my socks off, people. I am barefoot in my offi...

Stay tuned--don't touch that channel. Heads-up 7Up. Like that. :) Tomorrow will be a new sock-knockers post, focusing on worldbuilding. ...

Though I don't write thrillers—right now—apparently my brain loves them. I often have "chase dreams", whole night-long sequenc...

So I'm only a third of the way into SALVAGED, and I already had to take a brief pause in forward progress to wrangle it. Why? It's t...

After a long blank spell (writing my thesis), I've been reading a lot lately. Mostly YA: catching up on some classics I'd missed, an...