by DianneSalerni | Aug 25, 2010 | contest, PAYA, testing
The first annual PAYA Book Festival on Saturday was so many kinds of awesome, I could hardly contain myself! First of all, I was thrilled to meet wonderful authors like Jon Skovron, Jennifer Hubbard, Amy Brecount-White, Stephanie Kuehnert, Jeri Smith-Ready, and...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 23, 2010 | caged graves, goals, screenplay, The Practice Room, We Hear the Dead, writing
Summer vacation is over. Kaput. Today is the last day, and tomorrow, I’ll have to shift my mental gears into teaching mode. Boy, are they going to groan, whine, and squeal!At the beginning of summer vacation, I posted goals for myself. The idea behind posting publicly...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 20, 2010 | Blog Fest, caged graves
First of all, the setting for this scene is the sleepy mountain town of Catawissa, PA in 1867. So those of you who guessed it was historical were correct! Lenny’s first comment comes very close to describing the correct clothing for Verity. (Yay, Lenny!)When I close...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 19, 2010 | blogfest, caged graves
Today is the Guess That Character Blogfest, sponsored by Jen at Unedited. Below you will find a scene from my current WIP — The Caged Graves. The object is for you to guess what my character looks like and post your ideas in the comments. In this scene, Verity...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
This past weekend, my husband’s family got together to try out the birthday present my husband received from his sister: a chitarra. Chitarra (pronounced with a hard k sound, my Italian-class-award-winning niece tells me) is Italian for guitar, and this pasta-making...
