Joely Sue Burkhart

1.  I’ll start with Rene, who tagged me.  Her most impactful recent line:  “it’s easy to feel like your writing life has ended when a book is rejected.  But having a new project is the best cure.”

2. My Beloved Sis, especially her movie reviews.

3. My very good friend, Anna Black, who always manages to draw insightful conclusions from movies and books.

4. Bailey’s Long and Writing Road, for her heartwrenchingly painful and honest entries about her mother’s battle with Alzheimers, combined with her wonderful reviews and worship of The Shalvis.

5.Barbara Samuel’s A Writer Afoot is like stepping into a lovely painting.  I can’t wait to read one of her books.

6. Holly Lisle, for peeks into the day to day grind of writing.  Writers, if you haven’t yet, check out the wealth of free articles on her website, or the clinics in her shop.  I can personally recommend the Plot Clinic, which I just finished last night.

7. Another of my favorite authors, Patti O’Shea, who battles the Evil Day Job and writes for two publishing houses at the same time.

8.Lynn Viehl, a.k.a. S. L. Viehl, Paperback Writer, for her hilarious Marcia and John posts, her e-book challenge, her generous contests, and her helpful Q/A Fridays.  P.S.  I finished Night Lost tonight and LOVED IT.  I love Gabriel, my favorite Darkyn yet!!

9.Tamara Siler Jones, for her gorgeous quilt pictures, and for surviving all life has thrown at her in the past year, including three new children, a broken wrist, and surgery, while writing the next Dubric book.  I especially love the Richard Steinberg quote in her sidebar.

10. Tess Gerritsen, many-time bestselling author, who reminds me that all the same doubts and fears will be there even if the dream does happen.

11. Jen Holling, another working author with a family who still manages to keep it all together.

12. Laurell K. Hamilton, for scaring me when she starts talking about “we” and she means herself and her characters, and I’m not really sure if she remembers they aren’t real people.  Which leads me to,

13. Janie, for giving me the idea that Edward should just hurry up and shoot Anita Blake already.