The Week of Magically Getting Up at 6:30 a.m. Every Damn Day Like Some Kind of Fool How I wrote & deleted the same sentence 6 times then decided to vacuum the stairs and now…
Posts Published by Jodi Chromey
Everything the light touches is my kingdom. Well, at least where this website is concerned. There's an about me section if you are so inclined to know things. All the posts were written by me. I have a lot of words.
Of Course it Doesn’t Suck
I recently confessed on Book Riot, that I might be the slightest bit irrational when it comes to the books of Elizabeth McCracken. I discovered Elizabeth McCracken in the mid-nineties about the same time I…
Better Stop & Look Around
The sun is mostly set, though it’s not wholly dark out. It’s 64 degrees out and the breeze coming through the open window a few feet away is cool, but I have socks on so…
Celebrating 5 Years of Paying the Mortgage without a Real Job
On this day in 2009 I lost my last corporate, cubicle-based job. When the economic times got rough, the company blogger had to get going. As far as layoffs go it wasn’t too shabby. Shabby…
So Much Promise & Even More Disappointment
Helen Oyeyeyemi’s Snow White retelling/fairy tale mishmash Boy, Snow, Bird starts out deliciously sinister, but never quite lives up to its potential. We begin with Boy Novak a horribly abused, stunningly beautiful young woman living…
John Cusack & A Fistful of NutterButters
I went off the deep end pretty early this morning. Maybe even before 9 a.m. The cause? A Twitter-friend pointing out a novel with an intro blurb that could have been written about my work-in-progress…