My kids recently went through a Muppets phase, which was great for me since it’s my favorite show from childhood. I got to watch some classic episodes, like the one where Paul Simon guest stars and the muppets spend much of the show twisting the “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” song title into silly variations like, Fifty Ways to Love Your Liver. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this post. What I’m wondering today is, what do you, […]

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Today I backed into my apartment building on the way to take the kids to school. I was parked in a spot where I don’t normally park, and I had to back up at an odd angle to get out, and I had a weird feeling there was a support pillar that I wasn’t seeing as I backed up (it was in my blind spot), but I was actually looking and really couldn’t see anything. And then, crunch. Yes, I […]

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Thank you to everyone who joined in to celebrate the new blog! Since we had so many posts, I’ll continue doing contests weekly for a while to give more people chances to win. The winners of the first contest are (drum roll, please): Tamara B. Kelli Jo Calvert Dawn B. If each of you three could email me (jamiesobrato AT yahoo DOT com) with your full name and mailing address, along with which book you’d like as your prize, I’ll […]

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To celebrate the new blog/website, I’m drawing three names from the first twenty people who post on the blog, and those three winners will get to choose a copy of any book from my backlist as their prize. So pop in, say hi, tell me how much you love my writing (flattery is always welcome), or tell me anything you want, like, I dunno–what you had for breakfast (I’m sitting in a Toyota dealership waiting for my car to be […]

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I’ve redone my website! Sadly, this one isn’t nearly as pink and red as the last, but it has some advantages that the old jamiesobrato.com didn’t.    Why a blog instead of a traditional website? Because I can update it myself, whenever I want. I can easily add or delete pages on a whim. I don’t know much HTML, so I was helpless with my old website. But WordPress is easy. Now that I can do whatever I want whenever […]

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I’m thinking about doing away with my old Blogger blog, The Naked Page. I’m liking WordPress lots better already. So I guess that means losing years worth of content or else copy and pasting all those old posts…maybe I’ll create a best-of-the-old blog category. Hmm.   My brain is still recovering from hellacious revisions finished Monday night. I can’t do any heavy decision-making right now.

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