Pamela Clare's Blog, page 46

How pumpkin pies are made
Cómo se hacen los pasteles de calabaza


Pumpkin pie is the winner by a landslide in our first-ever Thanksgiving Pie Poll. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Pumpkin is so deeply entrenched with the months of October and November — pumpkin lattes (UG!), pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie — that most people must associate this holiday, and perhaps even Christmas, with pumpkin pie.

Pastel de calabaza es el ganador por un deslizamiento de tierra en nuestra primera encuesta Pie de...

I just had to share this right now. Jennifer Johnson made it for me this evening, and it will soon be up on my Web site as downloadable wallpaper beside the other fun wallpaper she's made for the I-Team series.

It won't be up online for a while, so if you just can't wait, email me and I'll send it to you.

Thanks, Jennifer!

I'm in the middle of a massive Web site update. There are many new foreign covers, as well as an excerpt from Naked Edge and the novel-length author's note. OK, it's not quite...

I finished ghostwriting last weekend, and I wrote the author's note for Naked Edge, which meant that for the first time in ages I had time to... READ!

In the last poll I conducted, it's clear that I'm not the only one who chooses reading as my main way of relaxing. Some 70 percent of you do the same. Nothing else even came close. Television follows behind at a measly 13 percent, with goofing off on the Internet garnering 10 percent of the vote.

Reading wins in a landslide!

I love to read. I lo...

My heart and prayers go out to the families of those killed in today's attack at Fort Hood. I can't imagine their grief. As the investigation unfolds in the coming weeks, I hope we'll come to understand why the shooter was still in the Army and not already given the boot for poor performance. Based on what I read on the news wire before coming home, there were many reasons he could have been discharged prior to today's massacre.

It's so senseless and terrible.

On Wednesday, we observe Veteran's...

Halloween is over. I spent it in costume at my brother's house, handing out candy to trick-or-treaters and spending some time with my brothers, my sister-in-law and my niece and nephews, who were adorable. Now that I don't have any kids in the house, I can enjoy how cute everyone else's kids are without the pressure of carving pumpkins, buying costumes and buying candy myself.

So now we pick up with Fall Vacation Part II:

So Thursday was spent in Ithaca. On Friday, Benjamin and I climbed into t...

A view of Buttermilk State Park in Ithaca, NY

(Mira debajo de la traducción al español.)

Howdy! Miss me?

Sorry to have been gone so long. I've been doing as much nothing as I possibly can — while still working and ghostwriting. I'm going to finish the ghostwriting assignment this weekend for certain, so that will give me some real downtime, which I hope to use to refill my creative well, sleep — and clean my so-called house. (It's actually a junk pit.)

I spent the weekend of Oct. 14-19 in Ithaca...

The site of Fort Edward (Fort Elizabeth) as seen from Rogers Island (Ranger Island)
El sitio de Fort Edward (Fort Elizabeth) como se ve desde Rogers Island (Isla de Ranger)


Last weekend, I finished tweaking the epilogue for Naked Edge. I'd kept it with me, sitting on it as if I expected it to hatch. Finally, I managed to come up with an ending that felt right to me. And by that I mean just the last two paragraphs. Yes, I spent a month thinking about the last two paragraphs of the story.

My edit...