by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 17, 2013 | Author Spotlight, Fast Five
In celebration of the release of He Came for Mine, book two in CM Brown’s Protector Series, she joins us today for Fast Five. Which makes me think of “Think Fast!” Ahh, childhood memories of bygone television programming. Way off the topic at hand....
by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 14, 2013 | Writing
But first check out this cake I made. Delicious! It’s an Italian cream cake I made for The Hubs’ birthday. 1/25 of that coconutty mound of goodness is 412 calories. Yikes!!! But oh so delicious. I finished writing Chapter 20 last night, started Chapter 21,...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 10, 2013 | Writing
In a stunning turn of events, I sat down last night and plotted out the remainder of my novel. Then I submitted the first chapter to a writing contest. I feel somewhat as if things just started to get real. It was a shocking display of accomplishing things and an...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 7, 2013 | Writing
Speaking of mind blowing, on New Years Eve after that bottle of wine went down way too fast, I resorted to drinking Fanta and vanilla rum. Can I just say it was amazing? It was like a delightful creamcicle that made me want crab rangoons and a dance party. And this...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 4, 2013 | Food, history, Writing
In my continuing effort to be historically accurate, I did some research on desserts popular in the 1860s. You know, for basically one sentence in my novel. I stumbled upon a cookbook from 1861, The Book of Household Management. “Well, perfect!” I said....
by Heather Hambel Curley | Dec 28, 2012 | history, Mom-hood, Randomness, Writing
And what I mean by surprisingly, is totally not surprisingly. As 2012 draws to a close and we stand on the precipice of 2013, an awkward sounding year, I’ve been thinking about goals for next year. I’m a list making kind of gal. I find the act of crossing...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Dec 24, 2012 | Civil War, Food
Having survived the zombie Mayan apocalypse, or whatever it was that was supposed to happen, a girl’s thoughts turn to Christmas. And the fact it’s, well, tomorrow. The Hubs has a membership to ancestry.com, which started out as a trial membership that he...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Dec 18, 2012 | Civil War, Writing
By now you may have noticed one of the major things standing in the way of my writing is me. Followed by me being in Gettysburg. And trumped by Life handing me a to do list and saying, “Boo ya.” I took a week long writing seminar last week on how to better...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Dec 12, 2012 | Writing
Sometimes I wish I had a theme song. Bear with me here. When my maternity leave ended earlier this year and I returned to work, I’ll admit part of me was singing the “Welcome Back, Kotter” theme song. In fact, one of my coworkers may have sung the...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Dec 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Edit to add: This is my last, bitter attempt at correcting formatting issues. After this try, it’s just going to have to look annoying. I did my best, kids. Formatting be damned. –HHC You know when you reach that point in your day, when you are fairly...
