Author: Sarra Cannon

I have already signed up and bought my plane ticket for the Romance Writers of America National Conference in Nashville, TN! I even have my room at the Opryland Hotel booked (a hotel I have always wanted to stay in!). I can’t wait! The conference is at the end of July, and a list of editor and agents who will be taking appointments and pitches just went up online! I’m sure some people will be added to the list as it gets closer to the date where people can sign up for times, but I am already extremely happy with…

Yay! This is officially my 500th Sweetie Chronicles post! I started writing this blog a few years ago as an exercise in just waking up and getting something down every day. At first, it was hard to stick with it. Now, it’s more of a habit, and even though I don’t always write about interesting things, I almost always WRITE. It’s a good way to start my day. That being said, I think it’s time to add another habit to the mix. Now that I’ve gotten used to writing every morning on a random topic, it’s time to start working…

Lately, I have been watching a lot of zombie movies. And yes, most of them are terribly bad. Cheesy. Awful, really. For example, last night I watched “Return of the Living Dead, Part 2”. Yikes. It was actually one of the better ones, but it was still terrible. Bad or not, most zombie movies have similar plot devices. Some of these you will also find in horror movies in general, as well as any movie about an outbreak of a virus or other post-apocalyptic movies. I wanted to put together a list of some typical plot devices and things you…

I “read” this book through audio books on my way to Georgia and back again. It was broken into two parts that I downloaded from Audible, each part about 4 or 5 hours. This book, which is currently on the NYT Bestseller lists for Hardcovers, is about a woman who is buried alive by her identical twin sister. The twin then makes an attempt to take over her sister’s life and steal all of her money. Was this the best book ever written? No. Was it decent? Yeah. There were a lot of basic, overused phrases like “She swallowed hard.”…

At first, I was hesitant to read a book about the tensions between blacks and whites in Mississippi during the 1960’s. I mean, haven’t we seen enough of that through Mississippi Burning and other such movies? Don’t they all end with some lead character getting beaten to death or something? No thanks. But Kathryn Stockett’s version of 1963 Mississippi is different. Beautiful in some ways. Heartbreaking in others. In “The Help”, there are three main point of view characters. Skeeter, a 20-something girl who has just graduated from the University of Mississippi and moved back home to live with her…

Yesterday’s drive was no fun. It was very long and I was oh so tired. I’m home now, but I’m exhausted. Overall, the trip was a lot of fun. I feel like I did a successful job splitting my time between my siblings, friends and parents. (A skill that must be studied and learned for many years before it can be perfected, lol.) Getting back into routine is never easy. Especially when you’re this tired. Will write more tomorrow.