Amanda Helms

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  • Get baked

    So I’ve been following Miss Snark’s First Victim since, I think, close to her blog’s conception. She is one of those people who is made of awesome. And she’s got an awesome contest coming up: the 2013 Baker’s Dozen, which is detailed here. It is my goal to have my ms. done so that I…

  • New host; site apparently not broken (anymore)…

    OK, so I have a new hosting company and am (I think) successfully transferred after 48 hours-plus of kicking myself for not testing all this beforehand, and having various iterations of a 404 page come up on my site, or not at the home page but everywhere else. But let us not speak of the…

  • 3 songs currently receiving heavy play in my Spotify

    Yes, I’m totally phoning it in this week. Novel is once again eating my brain (and the necessity of generating a summary for a critique session I’m going to attend at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold conference this fall, though once done and polished I’ll probably post that here). I’m also starting to…

  • ‘Scuse the mess, please

    As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m revamping my site to include my posts from my soon-to-be-defunct Storied Baker site (successfully imported! huzzah!), and also applying my license to use Thesis over here. Nice in theory, but it does mean I have to deal with the learning curve of Thesis 2.0. Things may be…

  • Red, White, and Blue(berry) Bread

    “Oh, look at this. Can you believe this baker? What a lazy way to show patriotism.” “Um, it’s a loaf of bread. I’m not sure it’s claiming to be a show of patriotism.” “Of course it is. Calling it ‘Red White and Blue Bread’ and presenting it near July 4 as if it’s some great…

  • Caramel Cashew Butter

    Dear Mom, I wanted to talk to you about this in person, but every time I said sumthing like “Mom, about the sanwitches you’ve been making me,” your eyes got all big and a little too shiney, and then you’d say something like, “BILLY! Don’t you just LOVE your caramel cashew butter sanwitches?” Then after…

  • A fictionalization of my dog’s thoughts upon my early return home from work and our subsequent walk.*

    (From outside, keys jangle and tumblers in lock turn.) Hark! It is My Person, returning to me at last! Joy overwhelms my soul. The only way to express my happiness is to retrieve my raccoon and squeak it repeatedly. squeak squeak squeaka (Door opens. Laptop, purse, and other workday accoutrements are placed on the table.)…

  • Look, I have a dog!

      She, and the extensive walking/exercise and obedience training involved in Being a Good Dog Owner, is one of my many excuses for not writing. Other excuses  include: I discovered Dollhouse is on Netflix streaming and am currently going through the episodes. I’m also going through Bones on Netflix streaming. I’m rereading The Hunger Games…

  • Why, as I live and breathe!

    … if it isn’t Amanda! (coughs) Hey, website. How are you? Seems like it’s been ages since you’ve graced my pages. I’d give you the exact number of months, but having to say it may cause me to have a brain aneurysm. More likely me than you, seeing as I’m the one with an actual…

  • Miscellany Monday: Where I’m at

    *Watches tumbleweeds drift across her site* Well, so much for my goal of updating my blog twice a week. Epic fail on my part. I should really edit my home page since it erroneously claims I post regularly. Whoops. At any rate, here’s where I’m at in regards to writing: My WIP from NaNo remains…