by Heather Hambel Curley | Apr 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Corsets. I’m a fan. I’m not, however, a fan of the line in Pirates of the Caribbean where Elizabeth Swan makes some crack about “try wearing a corset.” Yes, corsetry was taken to the extreme in the turn of the 20th Century, with ridiculous wasp...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
With the writer’s conference a horrifying two months away, I’ve been focused on my hard copy edit. The high level edit? Done. Now I’m ripping through my hard copy pages, scratching out blatant abuse of the word “certainly” and replacing...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Balki Bartokomous of Mypos had his dance of joy. And I have my happy dance. The Hubs says I look like a deranged muppet when I break out the happy dance; lots of arm flailing and dancing on inappropriate offbeats. But I’m pretty stoked tonight, since I finally...
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...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Nov 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Very little of what I write about here on The Rambling Jour is on actually what I write about in my novels. Obviously, I write historical fiction. And obviously, I write about the Civil War. Because. You know. A little obsessed. Kelley Heckart, who writes...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Aug 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Here’s an example of how my Tuesday culminated. We got an email about an impromptu ice cream social on the 4th Floor. I literally–LITERALLY–said out loud, “The 4th Floor? I thought the 4th Floor was closed for all the construction. Really, the...
