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National Author Day
It’s that festive time of year when everyone rushes to take down their Halloween stuff and put up their National Author Day decorations. Yes, pull out your Mark Twain centerpieces, your Jane Austen wreathes, and those life-size twinkly Bronte Sisters…
Continue ReadingIRA in Billings, Montana–how you know you’re not a big author yet.
Are you beginning to wonder why all my blogs are about traveling places? So am I. When my husband told a guy at work that he had to leave—once again—to take his wife to the airport, the co-worker asked, “Who…
Continue ReadingThe most crowded place on earth.
Without stopping to unpack from my Houston trip, I jumped in the car with the family and headed to California. We and some of our good friends had decided to take a two day vacation at Disneyland. Neither of our…
Continue ReadingHouston Trip–see it’s not just me.
Some of you think that I make up all of those embarrassing moments that I stick in my novels. Some of you think that those sort of mishaps don’t happen in real life. Well, not only do they happen, but…
Continue ReadingChicago trip
I am way behind on blogging about my travels, which matches, incidentally, my being behind on cleaning, organizing, updating my website, and well, just about everything else. One day I’ll master the art of not sleeping and then I’ll get…
Continue ReadingSuprise School Visit (DC part 3)
While I was in DC I did five school visits to fabulously brilliant children. (The fact that they liked my books is proof positive of their brilliance.) However, I must say that the most memorable was the surprise visit I…
Continue ReadingIt’s Here!
I’m interrupting my DC blogs (I have one more-and it’s the best.) to bring you this important news flash:Revenge of the Cheerleaders is in stores now! Run to the nearest bookstore and demand your copy. Yell out my name while…
Continue ReadingDC Blog – Part 2
One of the benefits of going to DC to do school visits was that I was able to spend some time taking in the sights. And there are more things to see in DC then a person could see during…
Continue ReadingSchool visits in D.C., part 1
I’ve just come back from an amazing week in DC area. So amazing, that I’m afraid I’m not going to be able to fit it into one blog. I might have to put it up here in installments just like…
Continue ReadingEx-boyfrined stories are up!
Since I’ve been running a “dish dirt on your Ex” contest, it only seems fitting that I tell some stories about the lucky (and unlucky) guys from my past. Really, as I sit here thinking about it, I realize that…
Continue ReadingAdvice for the rejected author
A friend of mine from a writing list just had her manuscript accepted by her editor and then rejected by the editor’s boss. She asked how the rest of us handled these sort of emotional setbacks. This was my advice:…
Continue ReadingWorst first line contest winner–yes!
In the same spirit as the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, one of my oldest and dearest writing friends, Kerry Blair, sponsored her own worst first line contest. The prize, besides a vintage copy of Bulwer-Lytton’s most famous work: The Last…
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