The scale of devastation in Western North Carolina is unprecedented. When you combine mountains and heavy rain, all of the water runs downhill into valleys and rivers and the flooding can be catastrophic. All images are from the Durham Downtown Facebook page. Why didn’t people evacuate? I see this question a lot, and I can
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The Irony
On the phone with Jeaniene Frost Me: I haven’t done anything for a whole week. J: I hear you. Dragoncon was a lot. Me: I might take the next week off too. J: This is so unlike you. I’m starting the new project next week. Me: But why? J: List of reasons that make sense.
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The Time Between
We all have a routine that keeps our lives running. Get up, brush teeth, make coffee, drink a cup, get dressed, head out the door. Don’t forget phone-keys-wallet. We run our dishwashers, we sweep our kitchens, we vacuum our floors, and feed our pets. Being writers, we work from home, and our cycle of routines
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Welcome to the Spamily
About three days ago I was CC’ed on a spam email. We all know what to do with spam. We ignore it, and it gets auto deleted. The people who were also CC’ed on this spam apparently didn’t know this. Instead they responded to the spam via Reply All. That reply then went to the
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My Movers Might Be Wanted by the FBI
Sometimes summers last forever. This summer felt like it, a long marathon of hot days filled with work. We had gone to Florida on a short vacation what feels like a lifetime ago. So much happened. And so much of it has been, well, weird. We sold Maggie and worked on the edits. Still working.
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News From the House
This will be a longish post. First the coolest thing: Hi Ilona & Gordon, I hope you are both doing well and enjoying the summer! I’m so pleased to share that TIME Magazine has recently launched a major romance project, including a list of The 50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now that features WILDFIRE
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Hurricanes, Awards, and Color Transitions
Happy Monday! This is going to be just me rambling post. It’s too early for coherency and I am on my first cup of tea. Please wish a swift recovery to Mod R who is feeling a little under the weather and had to wait to get antibiotics over the weekend. We are unsupervised for
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Karma, Crochet, and Books That Are Too Long
You know how we wrote that cute Arabella short? The cats have filled the fancy robotic litterbox overnight and then had a pee party. Thank you, Universe, and my husband, for the tile floor. I love tile. I love it so, so much. Then I logged into me email to find out that the our
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Vacation Report, Snippets, and All the Yarn
The 3 day vacation was lovely. Florida smiled on us with quick rains that blew in just long enough to cool things off and melted into the sky. The ocean was warm, the water like thick green bottle glass, clear enough to see the outline of your feet but opaque enough to hide the fish.
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Shag Carpet, the Outdoor Edition.
Happy Tuesday! The US is trying to return to work after a holiday weekend. We are having record heat here in Texas. For the people from other parts of the world, we are outside of the area affected by the recent storms. We’ve had a tornado, but we only caught the outer edge and our
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Storms and Characters
First things first: we are okay. The Houston storms are far away from us. Thank you for worrying. I’m sorry there was no updates. The last week was so long and busy. Gordon had a due diligence medical test on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday flew by, wrapped in writing and editing on the secret project
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San Marcos Tornado
Yesterday around 8:20 pm we got a tornado warning. Meaning a tornado has been sighted. I won’t lie, it got pretty ugly. Hail the size of small apples hitting the house sideways. Oaks bending near horizontal. The storm roared there for a bit. The power cut off, and the house went pitch black. But the
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