June Eleven

Manda likes to write!

GRAVY!
My first novel started with a mole. Yes, a MOLE - a freckle, a birthmark, whatever you want to call it.
I was at the pool with my daughter getting ignored by our swim instructor when a lifeguard with a particularly ripped abdomen walked by. He stopped to flirt with one of the female lifeguards and my eyes flew directly to an adorable mole on the top can of his six-pack.
"How cute!" I thought (among other things). "He looks like a character in a romance novel!"
So I went home and started writing fiction for the first time. That was a year ago and I still haven't been able to stop. GRAVY is the story of a suburban housewife who wants another baby, but gets a man with a mole instead.
I'm currently looking for an agent. Preferably someone with a bent sense of humor and a Twitter account. Bonus if she laughs when I ask her if that's a Kindle in her pocket or if she's just happy to see me.

June 11, 2009

My kids got a new cousin yesterday!
Andrew was born just before 6PM last night and was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 100% beautiful.

I love this video of him screaming.

Is there anything better than the sound of a healthy newborn cry?

What better way to announce the arrival of a beautiful new nephew than on a newly-designed blog! This lovely new header (refresh and/or click over to see it!) is a Secret Agent Josephine original and I love it with the heat of a thousand suns. I've always admired Brenda's work - the woman has more creativity in her pinkie toe than I have in all of my DNA combined - but I didn't think she was still designing blog headers. I've never felt so happy to be wrong!

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Comments

Yay! A new son, sibling, grandchild, great grandchild, nephew, cousin, etc.

Welcome Andrew and congrats to all!

P.S. - Look how big Thomas is. Wow.

Posted by: David | June 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM

He is so sweet!

I love to blog header too. What did you do to get SAJ to design your header??? (Does she take Bribes?)

Posted by: Siera | June 11, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Congrats on the arrival of baby Andrew! (BTW, that is a great name...my son is named Andrew)

Love the new header!

Posted by: JMH | June 11, 2009 at 02:56 PM

Congrats, Auntie! The look on your older nephew's face is priceless. Kind of like he knows that things have just changed drastically for him.

Posted by: Rhi | June 11, 2009 at 08:00 PM

Awwwh. Congratulations! on the newest familial addition.

Posted by: Kerri Anne | June 12, 2009 at 09:34 AM

YAY Baby Andrew!!

I love the new blog header!!

Posted by: Tana | June 12, 2009 at 05:22 PM

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