We were walking down a narrow hall that curved gently. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?  Do you know why hallways are straight?  It’s because there are rooms on the other side of those walls.  If you have a curved hallway, that means you have curved rooms.  I mean, I guess you could do that if you want.  You could…

So, the graphics got a mixed reaction.  I…tend to agree with both sides.  I like making them and sharing them, but they do clutter up the blog like crazy.  So, compromise!  I made a second blog (here) that’ll have nothing but pictures and extra bits and pieces and links/follow-ups for past books I’ve done.  Those…

I was dizzy and my stomach had started to gurgle so badly that I was reminding myself of Meg Ryan in the movie French Kiss after she ate all that cheese and had a lactose-intolerance fit. (Kevin Kline is really cute in that movie—well, for an old guy.) What…just what is this?  What am I…

Zoey sits on her bed and listens to her parents do stuff. Within thirty minutes our house would begin to fill up with fat women and their beady-eyed pedophile husbands. Not all Christians are pedophiles.  I’m pointing this out, not because I think there’s someone who doesn’t realize this, but because it’s so fucking obvious…

This chapter opens with Zoey explaining to us that even though her stepfather looks handsome and charming, she knows it’s all really for fake.  She doesn’t tell us how she knows.  She just “knew” from the very first moment she met him that every single instance of him being nice is “fake.”  Considering what a…