About Me
I’ve been writing since I was eight years old. My first novel (written when I was 10) was a 30- page stunner about drug addiction. Yes, even as a child I was going after the big issues. I’ve done a lot of tech writing but my real love is fiction - mysteries specifically. Currently, I have a mystery novel I’m shopping.
I’ve been blogging for almost a year now. In that time I’ve written over 300 posts and have had thousands of comments - not tens of thousands, but yes, thousands. And though, this is a labor of love, I’m also available for hire. Feel free to email me, if that interests you.
The work included in this blog is created by me exclusively unless otherwise noted. There are a few guest posts written by respected bloggers and that content is the exclusive property of those authors.
Some favorite authors: Robert Heinlein, Ayn Rand, James Patterson, Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Sara Peretsky and Patricia Cornwall.
I love most music but favorites are jazz and blues.
I constantly battle the urge to smoke and am addicted to diet coke.
I live in L.A. with Maggie the dog and Boodie the cat - and a few million nuts and twigs.
Commenting on the blog is welcomed but malicious comments will be deleted immediately.
I am this blog’s Goddess. I thank you sincerely for reading. Any questions, please feel free to email me.
Writerchick
September 12, 2006 at 11:32 am
Annie.
I am Steve Mercado’s cousin, Sharon. Yesterday, of course, was extremely difficult. Steve’s wife, Joviana, was down at the site with their two boys reading some of the names and she said his name in loving tribute to him from her and their children.
You captured some of the essense of my wonderful cousin and reading your blog brought a smile to my face. Thanks for doing such a good job.
Sharon, I’m happy that my humble blog could bring a smile to your face on what must be a very difficult week. I was happy to do the tribute and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Annie
September 30, 2006 at 2:59 am
WC,
Would you like to be a co-contributor at my blogs? We are looking for some top-notch writers like yourself. Drop me an email.
R/
Bosun
Hey Bosun,
Long time no talk. Okay, I’ll drop you an email.
WC
December 17, 2006 at 6:21 pm
WC,
I used to be addicted to diet coke too!! I’d start the day with coffee, drink DC all morning and afternoon and then end up with splitting headaches. Somehow, I cracked the addiction and now drink way too much caffeine-free diet soda.
I still start with coffee, of course, but the DC is for special occasions calling for alertness and energy.
FP
LOL FP,
I know just what you mean. I don’t get headaches but a funny kind of dullness and weird taste in my mouth if I drink too much. Yet, I still can’t give it up. The coffee I’ve weaned down to a couple of cups in the morning - and I can live with that. If only I could give up starch and sugar then I’d be doing okay.
Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again.
WC
January 14, 2007 at 6:54 pm
I also have a ’serious’ addiction to diet coke. In fact, I wrote a poem about it.
Far out! I’d love to see that poem - I’d probably tape it to my computer!
Wc
February 1, 2007 at 6:19 pm
24,000 hits WC???? WA-WA-WEE-WA!!! Very cool girl! WILD
Aw Wild Heidi, thanks for coming by. And yeah, 24,000 hits! Can you believe it? I know I can’t.
love ya,
WC
March 14, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Oh-oh, it just dawned on me that I have a lot of reading to do. I’ve known you’ve been around, I’ve dropped in less then can be considered polite as I am mostly hanging out on a mutual friend’s websites leaving my comments there. But I just read your “cream boogers” and am now frantic thinking that there have to be so many more treasures in the millions of posts that you left in this blog.
Ok, I can see loosing my job over this but money isn’t everything, treasures are……
LOL Spaz you are too cute. No worries - no need to miss work - this stuff will be waiting here whenever you feel like reading it. LOL - glad you liked Cream Boogers - one of my fav posts and actually my very first blog adventure.
Love,
Annie
March 17, 2007 at 10:56 pm
aaahaa, that explains it…you’ve been writing since you’re 10… no wonder i enjoy reading you so much… awesome… don’t know how much use i am but you’ve got yourself a fan..
ken
I am always happy to have a fan. Thank you for all of your reading and commenting - nothing makes a blogger/writer happier than that.
WC
March 24, 2007 at 10:34 am
Thanks for the Climate Change/Global Warming Hat Tip. I’ve added you to my blogroll if you don’t mind.
Happy to do the HT (and always try to do so) - and of course I don’t mind being added to your blogroll - thanks so much.
WC
PS: You have a handle, name, moniker…that you like to be called?
March 24, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Fritz is too Germanic and Lionel smacks of English Aristocracy. You can call me Alexander, as in Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and one of two leading authors of the Federalist Papers (which, as everyone should know, was the precursor to the U.S. Constitution).
LOL - okay Alexander…can I call you Alex for short? Or is it too soon for nicknames?
WC
March 25, 2007 at 5:14 am
How about you just call me Ham? Of course, that may cause some issues with our Islamic friends, who can’t associate with pork products.
Oh, well, why not? Just call me Ham…
Cool, I like it. I will call you Ham. Thanks Ham. See ya later Ham. Nice talking to you Ham. Yup, it works.
WC
April 11, 2007 at 8:28 am
I too wrote my first novel at a young age. I think I was nine. However, unlike your apparent ability to create quality reads, mine was a treatise on vegetable avoidance. It was about 20 pages long, and to this day I am amazed at the inane thoughts of my young self. One can see the extreme distaste I had for anything green and leafy, and I won’t even get started on the putridity of cooked vegetables. I was actually pretty funny then. Wheras now, well, not so much….
I think a novel about vegetable avoidance has real possibilities. In fact, I thought that was hysterical. Oh, you are plenty funny my dear. I love your humor.
WC
April 13, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I’m reading “Raymond Chandler Speaks” lately — have you read it?
Great stuff about the craft of writing.
Hi Om,
No, I’ve never read that book. I’d be delighted to read what he had to say on writing. There has never been a writer like him, though many have tried. He was/is a true original. Thanks for the tip.
WC
April 27, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Great blog, just surfed on and enjoyed reading. You really have a way with words - makes the reader think. Thanks for sharing
Hey Bella,
Thanks for stopping by and visiting my humble abode. I took a little tour at your place and you’re a riot. Stop by any time.
WC
June 21, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Hi Annie,
What an outstanding blog…keep up the great work…love ya…Marli
Hey Marlene!
Thanks for coming by and checking it out. I hope you’ll come back. Let me know when you’ve got one up.
Love
Annie
July 2, 2007 at 1:45 am
Hi Annie.
and I love all the pics to. I’m so going to enjoy reading you. And Hey!! Annie, thanks for your help and time in supplying me with the information I need concerning the pics.
Yes….Indeed a great blog. Thanks for taking the time to share with us. You make me smile
Peace and Love
Di
Hey Di,
Glad to have helped. And glad you get a smile from the blog - that is I guess it’s intention. It seems to have worked out that way anyway.
WC
July 2, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I just realized I’m not one of the gang - I’m broken hearted now :/
I’m sorry honey, I thought I’d added you already. Of course you’re part of the gang.
Just my oxygen starved brain playing tricks on me. Sowwy.
WC
July 30, 2007 at 5:02 am
Hi,
It was great pleasure to read your blog. Thank you.
Plus, as I remind that nothing happens by chance, your blog - our meeting- becomes doubly precious, challenging.
We need the solitude to catch the sunbeam and to hear its talk- to enjoy the aroma of the spiritual world, but it is impossible to enter this world of sacred dream alone - we need one other to share the light that embraces us and leads forward. Conception of the spiritual oneness of the humanity in the diversity of its outward shapes is the obligatory road stick.
In other words, I hope our meeting will help me to stand up and to move from my loneliness.
Hi Tomas,
What a lovely way to put it. I’m glad you enjoyed coming here and hope you’ll come back to visit again. I agree, sharing the light seems to be key.
WC
August 6, 2007 at 9:01 pm
WC…..I’m down here behind the Orange Curtain in Yorba Linda! Shoulda known you were a Cali girl ! My fav. music is blues, I’m working on kicking my smoking monkey in the ass and out the door, and I’ve been writing (first, poetry) since I could put a pencil to that wide-lined stuff they made us write on in 2nd or 3rd grade.
How wonderful about your book. I’ve got about 20 chapters in a first attempt…but I wonder sometimes if I’m not spilling too much of my seed here in the Blogworld…working a full time job and finding quality “inspired” time to write is a challenge.
I hope all the best for you and that you get your book published SOON! You’re so very talented, and a blessing to everyone who reads you!
Hey Grace,
We’re practically neighbors. Seems you and I have some very similar things going on in our lives. I worry about spilling my creative juices too much in blogging too - but then I’m so compulsive I can’t stop blogging either. Even (and sometimes especially) when I have nothing to say.
Aw, you’re sweet. I could so easily say the same about you - so talented and a blessing - a-yup.
WC
August 8, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Intellect oozes! Thanks for dropping-by.
Ra.
Hey Ra,
Am I oozing again? Yikes.
WC
October 25, 2007 at 4:02 am
WC, I’m here to tell you that I’ve stopped blogging for a while. I thought you’d want to know so you could take me off of your blogroll. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you and I will still be stopping by to see what’s going on…I LOVE YOUR BLOG ANNIE and I will be by to read all of your thoughts and feelings! I will let you know if and when I get a new address, until then, I’ll be back for sure!!!
Thanks. ~Bella
Oh Bella,
No more blogging for a while?
It’s been a pleasure knowing you too girl, and stay in touch, you have my email - use it. And you’d better give me your new blog addie, as soon as you get it.
Love
Annie
December 21, 2007 at 9:20 am
Hi Annie
Thank you . The emails that I had gotten said something related to my website and mention of y name so she took your work,called it her own and then claimed that I stole it from her? Ha! ha! Ha! ha! I will find her blog I am not keeping my mouth shut anymore. Annie are you in Chicago? I haven’t started a blog roll yet I just joined under Angela to find Lea and put my cyberfoot up her fanny.Stay in touch and have a happy holiday!
Hey AngelaPetite,
It seems this young lady likes to cause trouble and those types of folks are best left ignored. They are only happy when they can get a rise out of you, so don’t let her.
Nope, I’m not in Chicago (although I’m originally from Detroit) - I’m in L.A.
I hope you enjoy your new blogging adventure, it has brought me lots of smiles over the last year to blog and I’ve made many wonderful friends.
You have a very Merry Christmas Angela, I hope you find peace in love in this wonderful season.
Annie
December 23, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Thanks for kind comment on my Winter Solstice post on Nuke’s. I admire your dedication to writing and wish I had pursued a similar course when I was a teen. I had such wonderful english teachers.
I’ve bookmarked your blog and will peruse it regularly. It will have a positive effect on me.
I have a poetry site that gets no traffic at all if your interested…
http://sweatinitout.blogspot.com/
Hasta Luego
Beto
Hi Beto & welcome! Your poem was outstanding and you don’t usually see such literary stuff at Nuke’s. As to pursuing writing - heck, I’m no spring chicken - and I think writers are like wine, they get better with time. Don’t you agree?
I just dropped by your sight - even made a comment.
WC
PS: I have another site that no one visits too - oh well, we do what we love.
Annie
January 2, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I just popped in here via a link referral from another excellent blog (ChrisWondra.com) while aimlessly surfing on a painfully slow day at the office and am amazed at the scope and quality of the writing represented here. I look forward to returning and poking around some more.
Hi Darren,
I’m truly flattered by your kind words. Please feel free to stop by any ol’ time you like.
WC
January 7, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Thank you, so very refreshing to type in my search the words ‘boo hoo hillary’ (after seeing today’s embarrassing display by Hillary Clinton) an find such a well expressed article.
Hello Bky,
I hope you don’t mind, but I moved this comment to the Hillary post and responded to it there.
If you like posts about Hillary, make no mistake, I’m likely to do several more before it’s all over.
WC
January 7, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Dearest Annie, WC, all y’all - another year gone by, and we still haven’t hooked up - what’s up with that?! Yeah, I’ve been bad, got the lump of coal … again … still haven’t finished the book, started the blog, nor commented on yours in months, but still here, still plugging away, and still a faithful reader.
Hey hey Crisco!!!
I was just a thinkin’ about y’all. I miss you to be sure. You better email me and give a better update than that, my friend. Seriously, let me know what’s doing, eh?
Annie
January 8, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Hello!:)…firstly i would like to thank you for your comment,i must confess that you are a really impressive person..and secondly i guess i have to answer at your question…i think i would like to be someone else because i am a weak person,too sensible and it’s better for me to adopt another attitude…
Hey Dealing,
First, thanks for the nice compliment - but I’m less impressive once you get to know me.
And secondly, hey we can all improve ourselves and try to be the best us we can be - but honey, being yourself and true to yourself is a good thing. I promise.
WC
January 21, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Hello darling,
I am new to this blog business and in the eternal hunt for information (this time about what I believe are called “Splogs”, I discovered you. Reasons for everything as usual. Besides that, when one discovers a pieces of one’s own writing, sitting in one’s own spam, what exactly does it mean? It appears that someone “half-inched” someone else’s writing and it taking credit for it, but if you click on it, low and behold you are back at your very own port of call. Confusing for a new girl who wants to learn. Do you mind an email back explaining what you can? I can read a smart chick at 10 paces and would really value the help from you.
XOXOX
Miss Kitty
Hello Miss Kitty, nice to meet you. As to splogging and the many ins and outs, I’d suggest you check the wordpress forums. Just click on the wordpress link and find the forum link and then type in what you want to know about. I’m sure you’ll find a bountiful selection of info. However, if you have a specific question, feel free to email me.
WC
March 17, 2008 at 3:52 am
May Happy Birthday wishes bring you many surprising moments filled with laughter, smiles and adventure, Annie. Big hug from up North! S.
Hey Spaz,
Thanks, hon. I had this big ol’ Irish post I did but it didn’t publish like it was supposed to, so I had to fix that. Me and the technological bang heads once again.
Annie
May 11, 2008 at 2:54 pm
WC: You have a great blog here and I noticed you’re also a fellow Heinlein fan!
Thanks for the add to your blogroll; I have returned the favor.
Hey JOS,
Thanks and back atcha. I saw that we had many things in common as well. Old, classic movies for one thing - personally can’t get enough of them. How do you feel about Hitchcock?
WC
May 11, 2008 at 3:53 pm
WC: I love Hitchcock films–my favorite is “Rear Window”. Have you ever see the Mel Brooks Hitchcock spoof “High Anxiety”? A must see for every Hitchcock fan!
Me too! Close seconds are, Vertigo & Strangers on a Train. Never saw the Brooks movie, I had no idea it was a spoof on that. I’ll have to check it out, thanks for the tip.
WC