http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/ Near daily ramblings from novelist Joshilyn Jackson. en-us 2010-04-14T06:32:55-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001166.html Faster Than Kudzu is dead. Long live Faster Than Kudzu!... Click This joshilyn 2010-04-14T06:32:55-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001165.html No worries. There will be Salmon and Brown book give-aways, of course. RNG says 18 and 4 – CONGRATS! 18) Count me in, please. --- Posted by Jerri Hernandez at April 11, 2010 10:21 PM 4) I'm in love with... contest joshilyn 2010-04-14T06:30:33-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001164.html Tuesday is my Five Full Plates day, and I almost wish this essay was HERE so I could put it in Especial Pet Favorites. It's about our new I DARE YOU challenge where we force ourselves to step outside of... Click This joshilyn 2010-04-13T05:38:50-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001163.html Bernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the classic Sugar and Nowhere Is a Place, which was a Washington Post best fiction title for 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well... Three Questions joshilyn 2010-04-11T17:08:52-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001162.html Today I am over on Five Full Plates, and happy to be back blogging there. You should make the clickies on that link, because over the weekend we are running a contest. You can win a signed ARC of Backseat... contest joshilyn 2010-04-09T07:30:39-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001161.html There were five toothbrushes on the floor of my office this morning. Two were mine---one from my bathroom and one from my travel bag. One is Scott's, also from the bathroom. One is a free toothbrush that was given to... Mr. Husband joshilyn 2010-04-07T12:07:18-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001160.html Hello, I have decided to live! I actually bloomed back to life late on Sunday, and I considered writing a mildly blasphemous but sincerely-intentioned Easter post about He is Risen, Hallelujah, and so have I, but freakin’ Mir beat me... Mr. Husband joshilyn 2010-04-06T12:10:10-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001159.html Joshilyn is fine, just like I TOLD you she would be. You should learn to be more trusting, internet. The surgery ran longer than expected so they plan to keep Joshilyn in the hospital until Wednesday, and then she'll be... joshilyn 2010-03-29T23:38:56-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001158.html Joshilyn is fine. Everyone say it with.... "Joshilyn is fine". Good, now everyone clap your hands and say, "I do believe in novelists". The Scene: A hospital room in rural Georgia. Banjos play in the background and doctors and nurses... Mr. Husband joshilyn 2010-03-27T11:54:10-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001157.html Today I am over on Five Full Plates, telling you absolutely everything, I mean EVERYTHING, I know about keeping your home lovely and spring fresh clean. So. Perhaps tomorrow I can tell you everything I know about brain surgery, and... joshilyn 2010-03-23T07:26:48-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001156.html My computer has caught a bad case of the Google Creep. It only came to my attention because my bookmarks all disappeared. Then later, when I logged into my google mail account, POOF! They were all magically back. I realized... I Heart Technology joshilyn 2010-03-22T08:42:44-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001155.html I am up at three am because I feeling well enough today for my insomnia to come back. The Brightside of my boring and endless anemia has been, I have been sleeping hours and hours and hours at a time,... Yip-Yap ala Random joshilyn 2010-03-18T03:12:54-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001154.html Scene: My house. Foyer. Enter: Bagel. Feet a’scrabble, he runs to the front door. Bagel: *on red alert* BARK BARK BARK! Scott: What? Hey, dog! What?! Bagel: BARK BARK BARK! Scott: What is going on? Me: A tiny, fluffy cat... Mr. Husband joshilyn 2010-03-15T20:23:27-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001153.html It is the family retreat! My family is supposed to be camping with a buncha families from my church in a gorgeous state park in Tennessee. And indeed, this is happening; my FAMILY is doing exactly that. My husband is... Yip-Yap ala Random joshilyn 2010-03-13T15:55:33-05:00 http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/archives/001152.html This is Tuesday, so of course I am over on Five Full Plates, oversharing about Dark Events that took place in 1997, oppressing teeny rodents, and prepping to triumph over my closet. Maybe even my garage, which hardly deserves the... BETTER U joshilyn 2010-03-09T09:37:14-05:00