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    Monday, March 12, 2007

    ELIZABETH TALKS ABOUT DÉJÀ VU

    I’m sitting with my laptop computer on a flat surface next to the fish tank,

    the TV is on, and off,



    and on,

    and two kids (ages six and three) are orbiting around me, laughing, jabbering, playing, fighting, and generally being healthy young critters.

    And I’m trying to work.

    (Yes, hate to burst bubbles, but blogging is WORK.)

    Then I remembered way back when, a time when my computer was a manual typewriter on a coffee table,

    the kids were mine rather than my grandkids,

    and there were usually two or three more kids in the mix and no other adults.

    I wrote my first nine books that way.

    Don’t ask me how.

    And people wonder why writers are nuts.

    Right now I’m overhearing all about R2D5—a few more developments from R2D2. But Darth is still the bad guy.

    Good vs. evil and good wins.

    Isn’t that why we love being around kids? They are hope on two legs, the future running at us with a grin and a hug.

    Life is good.

    :-)

    DO YOU HAVE A LIFE-IS-GOOD MOMENT YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE?

    18 Comments:

    Blogger karende said...

    I have a lot of moments, most of which have to do with my children - the most important one being when we finally realized my son was going to live [he was a premie with hyaline membrane disease]. He not only lived, he thrived, and from being such an ittybitty thing I was afraid to even touch, grew up to be 6'4" and about 260 lbs of solid muscle.

    The funniest was the one and only time my mother ever came to Alaska to visit. I'd taken her to Anchorage and a friend was showing her the sights while I attended a conference. Meanwhile, back home, DH had an old - very old - DUI he'd forgotten about, and one of the local cops picked that time to take him to jail. He called a friend who called our friend in Anchorage, and told me what was going on. I and the Anchorage friend laughed so hard we nearly split our pants! It was a case of "Well, NOW what are you gonna do to impress your mother-in-law, now that you've finally met her?" And there sat my poor mother, all ready to be sympathetic and consoling, and all we did was laugh, poor thing.

    Besides, being half the state away, there wasn't anything I could do anyway, other than laugh. Sometimes I think I must have a warped sense of humor, but it beats snivelling all to hell.

    karibear

    11:41 PM  
    Blogger DFender said...

    Betty,

    My "life is good" moments are continuous... pretty sickening really... I give myself cavities.

    I even wear a "life is good" baseball-type hat. It's a wonder people don't upchuck around me.

    We just helped our son buy his first car... and remembered when we bought him his first big wheel, too. THAT was sweet. Cavities, anyone?

    Ha! Have a wonderful Wednesday.

    Deb

    3:25 AM  
    Anonymous Lori of Canada said...

    I have a number of them (after all, who wants to try to remember the "life can bite" moments??)... one of my favourite snapshot ones involves me dog.... She is 15 and is a terrier/shepherd mix (yup, regular Heinz 57 - although I am learning the generations after mine don't get it when I reference that)....

    She likes to lay in front of our sofa and every now and then she rolls over onto her back, with her paws holding on to the sofa. She looks like she is grinning and no one does anything (goes for a drink, goes to the bathroom) until she rolls back.

    There is just something truly peaceful about life when she is in that position and the not moving is about (a) yes, my dog being spoiled and (b) wanting to savour that moment and that peace as long as possible.

    Lori M.

    5:35 AM  
    Blogger Lori Foster said...

    Ah ladies, I love all of you! Attitude is everything. Your outlook is everything. Seeing all the good, wonderful things in your life is, I'm finding, a rarity for some.
    Elizabeth, I wrote my first few books that way too! I didn't buy a computer until after my first book sold.
    Every single day I give thanks for my blessings. I have three healthy sons who I love to distraction, and they're as wonderful in personality as their father is, and we have such a close family... wow, I really am blessed.

    Deb, enjoy those cavities! LOL

    Karibear, it's wonderful what can be done for preemies now. Yay for you and your family!

    Lori M., you and I share so many atittudes and likes, it's almost scary. ;-)

    Hugs to all!

    Lori

    6:18 AM  
    Blogger nellsquirrel said...

    I sat in the back of the dojang yesterday and watched my son go through his moves. He's up for blackbelt this month.

    I flashed back to my butterball boy gripping my fingers tightly, trying to get his balance to walk. Now he's 5'9"+, 130 lbs of lean. Moving much more gracefully than I ever could dream of doing.

    For that moment, he wasn't the 14 year old I wanted to strangle an hour earlier. He's our miracle.

    Sweet Life.

    6:24 AM  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Just last night my cat was cuddling in my arms "baby style." I started singing her a song. Her purr got louder and more resonant as she nestled deeper into my arm.

    Since I was basically her captive for the moment I had nothing to do but sing and stroke her fur. It was a warm, gentle, contented moment for both of us.

    6:47 AM  
    Blogger BiblioHarlot said...

    I had a life is good moment yesterday. The weather was beautiful here in central Ohio, I was driving around dusk, windows down, breeze blowing and the sent of burning wood(my favorite!) filling my nose, with my dog on my lap- I didn't have a care in the world! MMMMMMM life is good!

    7:57 AM  
    Blogger Suzanne Simmons said...

    Life is very good when my son calls for a chat like he did yesterday. We rambled on for nearly an hour and I didn't care one whit that it was in the middle of my prime writing time. I'll make up that hour somewhere else. Those moments are so precious and I love them!

    ~Suzanne

    9:22 AM  
    Blogger Brandy said...

    Yesterday my Son turened 5 years old. He was blowing out his candles on his cake (the trick kind, we're evil parents *g*) and he kept huffing and my hubs and daughter and I kept laughing, he started to giggle and I thought that life couldn't get any better than this.

    11:10 AM  
    Blogger Lisa said...

    I agree, Brandy. The sound of a child giggling is the sweetest sound in the world.

    Well, that and puppy hiccups.

    12:52 PM  
    Blogger Pat said...

    Can anything be better than having your just-turned-five granddaughter, on her way home to Colorado after visiting Grandma and Grandpa-in-Arizona, invite them to visit "next Sunday 'cause that's when Grandma and Grandpa-in-Colorado visit us"?

    That's one memory we'll treasure forever even though we couldn't accept the invitation.

    1:33 PM  
    Blogger Judy F said...

    I so hate blogger. grrr.

    Last friday I was going to do my every other friday laundry at my sisters after work. Earlier in the day my sisters daughter and her newborn baby girl (a month old now)
    were over. I was so hopeing they would still be there when I got there..and they were. Shelly brought Amya back over so I could see her and feed her etc.

    So what if I got home later then normal. It was so worth it

    2:09 PM  
    Anonymous Ranurgis said...

    Hey, what happened to my comment?

    I was the first to comment on this one and now it's gone. For once I wasn't the last one.

    Maybe it was just to simple a moment to survive.

    3:34 PM  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    My ultimate "all's right with the world" moment came when I brought my daughter home from the hospital as a newborn. I held my brand new daughter with my 2 1/2 year old son snuggled up against my side and tears pouring down my face. My husband walked into the room and at first looked concerned and then just asked "Happy?" I could only nod.

    Carolyn

    5:19 PM  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    I just spent the weekend enjoying celebrating my Dad and uncle's 80th birthday, and also little Claire's fourth birthday.

    She had a cold and only three days later, as I come down with the cold, does it occur that the safer option would have been to stay away from the hugs and lapfulls of my niece.

    Safer..but much less fun! My aunt was watching my cousin's dog. It was great to see Claire and her older sister try to interest the Jack Russell terrier in playing.
    SusanB

    11:27 AM  
    Blogger mcewen said...

    Golly! Well that's a good idea = teamwork. It's certainly gives a reader a much wider perspective.
    Best wishes

    6:54 PM  
    Blogger Jayne Ann Krentz said...

    Life goes rushing by so fast. It takes will power and determination to slow down and enjoy the good times.

    --Jayne

    7:14 PM  
    Blogger elizabeth said...

    thanks for all the smiles

    life is indeed good.

    :-)

    8:51 PM  

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