March 10, 2006 – 12:00 am
To drop. Does anyone else ever do that? Things are good, almost too good, and so you brace yourself, mutter worries and denials, as though the gods were leaning over their fluffy pink clouds waiting to see who just might be too happy? And who, they, the bored, petty vengeful gods must smash? One of [...]
February 28, 2006 – 12:00 am
I’m not talking about my reality for a change. You can all relax. No deep painful personal confessions from me today, just a little commentary on reality tv and what I’ve recently seen. I don’t watch lots of tv, but I always have a couple favorites, a Tuesday night show, or a Sunday evening program, [...]
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January 4, 2006 – 12:00 am
While in Hawaii this past week I read a fascinating book titled Blink. It was in hard cover, and expensive, but it grabbed me in the prologue and kept my attention the entire time and I talked about it with friends on the beach, and to others by the pool, and ended up leaving my [...]
November 12, 2005 – 12:00 am
At UCLA when I wanted to switch from Theatre Arts to Creative Writing, I had to take an Intro to Creative Writing course. This was the mid to late 80′s and everybody was very Goth at the time and the cool, clever, real writers all wore black and slouched, or spoke in whispers of intellectual [...]
September 27, 2005 – 12:00 am
I get amazing emails about The Frog Prince. Nearly five months after it came out, I’m still getting several emails a week from readers who just loved the book, and loved how normal and accessible Holly was as a character. Some of the readers say they feel exactly like Holly and that Holly could have [...]
I’m just starting my last day of the Texas book tour. I’ll be signing tonight at the Waldenbooks in Hurst and will hopefully be able to swing by a couple bookstores in Fort Worth and sign stock first. But it’s hot here in Texas, so hot that my face feels like it melts every time [...]