by Christie Meierz | May 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
The SFR Brigade Presents is a weekly snippet blog hop. Click the pic above to check out what the other participating authors posted and find out more about their books! This snippet is from the second edition of Daughters of Suralia (Book 2 of the Tales of Tolari...
by Christie Meierz | May 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s growing as I type this. At about 4:35p, my husband made sure I was responding to him (because sometimes when I’m writing, it’s hard to get my attention), and left instructions on what to do with this thing: Then he headed out the door. Erm. Yes....
by Christie Meierz | Apr 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
No sooner had I stepped into the shower this morning, when a spider the size of a beachball crawled up the inner shower curtain. So I did what any (self-respecting) arachnophobe would do: I screamed and thrashed. This, as you might imagine, attracted the attention of...
by Christie Meierz | Apr 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Little did I know in May 2012, when I sat down to write about a little girl splashing her peds in a sparkling brook on another planet, that her father and the woman he loved would take over the story. Or that I would end up in April 2014 writing about interprovincial...
by Christie Meierz | Apr 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Some readers might be wondering why the new edition of Daughters of Suralia does not update their old one. The answer lies in the way books are assigned their ISBN/ASIN — one factor this number depends on is the publisher. Different publisher, different number....
by Christie Meierz | Apr 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s live!
by Christie Meierz | Mar 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here’s something I wrote last fall, a dramatic departure from what I usually write. Perhaps that’s why it wasn’t accepted for publication, or perhaps it’s because I’m a better novelist than a short story writer (they are vastly different...
by Christie Meierz | Mar 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
I spent my morning fighting a battle at the intersection of Google and GoDaddy, with the ability to change my web page* up for grabs. The Husband woke me up with this problem this morning, and I was not best pleased to have my muzzy brain challenged by Techno Bill...
by Christie Meierz | Mar 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
And so it begins. I wrote an email to my editor, attached the re-edited Daughters of Suralia manuscript, and clicked send. Within hours I received an acknowledgment; she had just begun to cast about for the next editing project. My timing was impeccable. We shall see...
by Christie Meierz | Mar 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
As those of you who know me on Facebook know, I love Monday. Today, my friend Sharon Lee asked her readers how the start of their week was going. Being as I’m a reader, I put chin in hand and thought about it. Being as I’m a writer, I decided to blog it,...
