Author: Sarra Cannon

My first thought when I woke up today: OMG. It’s Golden Heart Day! Today is the day that RWA Board members make those coveted calls to let the finalists in the 2010 Golden Heart Writing Competition. I’m following the news on two different websites. The Ruby Slippered Sisterhood, a blog written collaboratively by previous year’s finalists, as well as Judi Fennell’s site, where she is hosting her annual *SQUEEEE* party announcing the finalists in each category. So far, it looks like four names have gone up, and I already feel certain that my name will not be going on the…

Set in a fantasy world, Kristin Cashore’s Graceling is definitely a fast and entertaining read. In this world, some children are born with special abilities called “Graces”. Parents know their child has a Grace if their eyes settle as two different colors. Katsa, the heroine of the story, has one green eye and one blue eye. She is Graced with killing, a valuable Grace for the King of the Middluns, her Uncle Randa, and he uses her as his thug, sending her out to punish those that owe him money or have wronged him in some way. But everything changes…

Surely, you’ve heard about the drama surrounding Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, right? It’s pretty much THE news these days, and I think it’s because of the shocking timing. I mean, shouldn’t this be the happiest days of her career? She’s an immensely talented actress who can pull people to the box office to see her latest film just by name alone. She’s so beautiful and young and fresh-faced (even though she’s really what? 40-something? Amazing.) We all know that she’s great at romantic comedy roles like Gracie Lou Freebush in Miss Congeniality, but we also all know that a…

I was so tired of my old phone. It was a Sanyo and when I picked it out, I was swayed by the cool outer display and the shiny pink color. The battery life was really good too, but I had been using the phone for two years. In this day and age where phones are so advanced and varied, it was like torture to carry around the same boring phone for two years! Okay, so torture might be a strong word. But I wanted a new one, regardless. This month, our two year Sprint contract expires. If we were…

G and I have been married for three months today! It’s crazy how time flies! We really are made for each other, and every day that goes by, it just becomes more and more obvious how much we love each other. I just had a dream the other day about us going to Vegas, and I realized just how much I miss it. Sure, we were only there for a week, but it was like a dream. Of course, I think we’d feel that way just about anywhere that we could get away, just the two of us. Wouldn’t it…

A week ago, I wrote about how I’ve been using the advice of Alexandra Sokoloff on structuring my novel. Well, using the screenwriting tricks she talks about on her blog, I have planned my novel structure. It comes out to eight sequences and a total of 4 Acts (okay, so most people say 3 Acts, but I say 4 just because it makes it easier for me to figure things out). For my young adult novel, I am shooting for about 80,000 words, which works out perfectly with 8 sequences – roughly 10,000 words per sequence. Of course, the beginning…