Posts Tagged "internet"

For close to a week now, I have been dealing with some internet connection issues. It’s made life more interesting, and since most of my problems seem to stem from various Windows security settings, it’s convinced me that my next computer will be a Mac. Of course, in the meantime, I’ll muddle through with my troubled PC. In some ways, this problem is almost nice. When I can’t get online, I don’t have to worry about making sure I check my email and keep up with Twitter and Facebook. I almost feel a little bit more productive. Well, except for all the extra time I’ve spent trying to figure out how to solve my internet issues and driving to places where I could pick up a wireless signal. This past weekend was the first weekend in...

It’s spring. It arrived in these parts with a dumping of snow and slush. Add to that the fact that presently the only way I can access the internet is via a signal from a kindly if unsuspecting neighbor, and well, I guess it hasn’t been the greatest start to the season. But things are looking brighter. Why? Because in less than two months my first book will be out! So, on that note, I direct you to this guest post I wrote for the YA Book Reads blog on the Story Behind...

If you’ve seen less of me online the latley, that’s because the internet stopped working at my place for a few days. It’s back now and I am scrambling to keep up with everything I missed and fell behind on. I feel like I am just about caught up, but it makes me wonder what we did before the internet. I’m thinking the life of a pre-internet writer pretty much consisted of sitting at a desk and writing. If they needed to look something up there was probably a dictionary close at hand. Something requiring more research might have involved a short note and a trip to the library at some point. Modern writers have a wealth of information at their fingertips. Unfortunately, all that information can be a bit distracting. When I need to look...

The internet is a scary place. I only went online to look up who the woman was who covered Crimson and Clover (Joan Jett, if you were wondering) and on the same site where I found this info learned that Pat Boone did a cover version of Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train, and it is as horrible as it sounds. Obviously, this was all very important research.