Author: RachelABrune

  • The process continues for Soft Target…

    The May 1 launch for Soft Target proceeds apace, if slightly behind schedule. I just received 10 pages of second-round changes from my editor, to add to the 12 pages I received earlier and have not yet even begun to incorporate into the document. I have many excuses about why this is so, none of which…

  • Personal Statement

    I have decided to apply to FSU to pursue studies in mathematics (pause to see if the incredibly unlikelihood that I would ever type those words somehow causes the probability machine to explode…) Drafted this up and thought I’d put it out there. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to send them my way.…

  • Taking the fork in the road…

    I have to be honest, for the most part of my adult life I have studiously avoided anything that smacked of math class. Some of this was due to the fact that quite often when I look at numbers they switch themselves around, fooling me, pretending to be something else so that I’m adding sixes…

  • My husband sent me flowers…

    …beautiful flowering dogwoods, azaleas, jasmine, and a Basset hound and a cattle dog. Who are not actually flowers, but can often be spotted sniffing around the backyard that is seeing the first shoots and beams of our first Spring in the new house – a milestone I am missing what with being out in the deserts of…

  • Sunday Conversations

    Sundays are the days I relax by running around like a dervish trying to get all the things done I’ve been meaning to do while I’m working 10-12 hour days during the week. And by that I mean I sit around thinking of all the things I should be doing while trying to summon the…

  • Welcome

    Welcome to the Infamous Scribbler Web Launch and Cover Reveal! Feel free to poke around, or stand by for the full tour. First up, why “Infamous Scribbler?” I’ve been writing all my life, and a good part of that time was spent with the AP Stylebook at my side. My first journalistic venture was a…

  • A Conversation With Marcy Rachel

    Q.(Infamous Scribbler) On your site, you write that you got into designing for the indie author community during 2011 National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Tell us a little more about your “origin story.” A. (Marcy Rachel) In 2006, I was inspired by the creativity I witnessed every day. I was following a TV Show…