Tag, you're it

I feel about memes about the same as I feel about chain letters. I try not to pass them on. But I was memmed by my friend, author, Jana McBurney-Lin, author of My Half of the Sky, which is about to come out in paperback. This is a great book club read, so get your copy. You can read the answers to her questions at her blog: http://www.myhalfofthesky.blogspot.com/

Why not? It's a way to get to know people a little bit better. Here we go:

What were you doing ten years ago?
I was taking classes to figure out what to do with my life. I’d recently moved to CA and was ready for a change. In the class, we were instructed to cut out pictures from magazines and collage our fantasy life. How very Californian, I thought. Mine was all about a quilt shop I would open. Plenty of fabric, fab teachers, cute displays. But then, waaayyy down in the corner, in the teeniest, tiniest spot was the cover of a mystery novel I’d written. This was a bit of a surprise to me. I’d thought I’d laid that particular dream to rest in the late eighties. As I was making the collage, I knew I didn’t want to open a quilt shop at all. The teacher said that might happen, that you might find out what you don’t want to do. It took me a few more years of looking at that tiny cover to get up the courage to begin to write Wild Goose Chase, but that was the seed.

What are five things on your to-do list today ?
Blog at Inkspot, the Midnight Ink Author site http://midnightwriters.blogspot.com/
Send out ARCs of Stamped Out.
Experiment with blueprint fabric to use as a clue
Write a new scene for Ocean Waves, the next in the Quilting Mystery series
Clean up sewing room

What snacks do you enjoy?
Eat between meals? MOI? I don’t think so. Actually, all my meals are between meals. I’m particularly fond of Starbucks lattes, and the occasional original coffee cake.

What would you do if you were a billionaire?
Travel. Build a huge quilting studio and fly all my friends in to sew when I get back from the traveling. Feed people who don’t have enough. Endow a scholarship for people who want to write and sew.

What are three of your bad habits?
Biting my nails
Reading instead of writing
Not entering in my check register when I use the ATM card, so at the end of the month, I have to force the balance, and own up that I spent $234 more than I thought. Every month!

Who have you tagged?

I’m tagging the rest of my Killer Hobbies team:
Play if you want to!