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What fun!  One of the first writers I met at a RWA Nationals conference has featured me in her blog post today . Eliza March and I met in the lobby while I was trying to spot an agent from whom the computer had bumped my pitch appointment. We were so new, I had no idea you received a confirmation of the appointments. We chatted and connected and then I dashed off because I spotted the agent–who kindly gave me the opportunity to pitch to her on the spot. But among 2000 writers we did find each other again, a number of times, and we keep in touch.  Please visit Eliza and her fellow bloggers at Romantic Hearts and Sexy Tarts. I hope to visit her in Nashville at the 2010 RWA National Conference, an eleven hour drive from the DC area.

I live just outside of Washington DC and we’ve been hit with a number of snow storms this winter – very unusual for us. The Post publishes the biggest storms, so we have been reminded the last was in 2003 and before that 1996. This one’s a double hitter; the Friday-Saturday storm left 28 inches and the Tuesday-Wednesday blizzard–the weather service’s new status–today is expected to leave another foot.

So what does this mean for a writer, someone who works from home? Well, I write full-time anyway, so  for me there are no additional days off work giving me more time to write.  Not published, but I’m focused and have my routine that begins after I drop the kids at high school every morning at seven.

And there it starts; I don’t have to get up. I’m staying up late. The kids and husband are at home. The neighbors are