Heard recently in the Lane household–most often in the car: Mate (after sipping from the wrong cup from the cupholder in the front of the car): Yeah– what’s IN there? Me (eyes bugging in horror): “GUM!” Mate (choking back laughter): “Mmmmminty!” *** Chicken (wide eyed and ironic): “Yeah, Zoomboy– if you don’t believe in Santa,… Read More

Three things have happened to officially kick off this year’s holiday season… shall we hear? Thing the first: Mate and I had a movie date–and that needs some talking about. I spend relentless hours explaining to students the difference between an archetype and a cliche. An archetype is a form, a story or character or… Read More

Okay– first of all, I have discovered the ultimate in muggle deception, the zenith in instant gratification yarning, the absolute perfection in homemade gifts to make when you have a reputation for homemade gifts and your family has moved your deadline by five days. Are you ready for this? It’ll blow your minds: Ladies (and… Read More

Okay–I actually visited like five blogs today–but my damned work firewall wouldn’t let me comment… I’ll try and take care of that tomorrow, just know I’m still checking up on you–ME LOVE MY E-BUDDIES! And in other news…My first review as a non-indie pro. Not bad. I’ll have to improve upon it, but not bad…. Read More

Seriously– I was writing the Christmas letter. The weird part? It feels like a blog, except I use everybody’s real names. And I can’t swear. And I refer to my work with Dreamspinner Press as “niche romance” for the benefit of Mate’s extremely religious conservative family in New Mexico. And I didn’t mention Supernatural once…. Read More

Okay–my day was crap. The Monday before finals is ALWAYS crap. Too many kids saying “Why, oh why, did you fail me for not doing jack shit for two months. Why didn’t you TELL me my F was so bad!” It’s often either that or, “What crappy job can I do on a small assignment… Read More

We’ll start with the good stuff. * The other day in (go figure!) second period, my student– the loud one, the one I’ve sent to the office but who is always trying, walked up to the board and write a quote. “Ms. Lane, Ms. Lane– lookit this– it’s a quote from music… what do you… Read More

Okay– this is my cover art. January release date. Holy Goddess, Merciful God, REALLY let it not suck! (I’ve got a whole real blog with some funny stuff in it, but this was sort of exciting!)

Uhm, yeah. Pretty much why this post ain’t gonna be that long, folks! She’s up and it’s ten-ta-eleven. Shit. BTW– do any of you watch Glee? If you do, WIN!!!! Just sayin’… This one’s for Julie for no other reason than she likes Phineas and Ferb and she probably REALLY needs something to smile at… Read More

OKay– that’s mostly a wish. I got my editing done–yay! and am now looking at a long stretch of finals and correcting papers and generally throwing myself into the dayjob. It was funny– after hearing rather cynically about the young teachers and their ‘successes’ I had a good day teaching today. We’re doing The Crucible–I’ll… Read More