Distracted by the remodel, as well as a couple weeks of intense boy issues related to sports and academics, I stopped writing on Shey’s book. I couldn’t focus on anything but getting well and through the crisis, but an email from my editor yesterday reminded me that I can’t be distracted. I can’t allow myself […]
Category: Book Talk
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
As one who loves Ireland, and spent my final semester at UCLA studying at University College Galway on Ireland’s west coast, today is a special day. I don’t celebrate it with green beer or corned beef and cabbage, but rather, I remember all the great Irish and Anglo-Irish writers I’ve studied and read, as well as the wonderful […]
Saturday Chill
I’m coooold. Having just sat through a lacrosse game in 37 degree weather, with snow and hail pelting down, my hair’s soaked and body’s chilled and that’s on top of the cold I was fighting…but lost out to. I hate it when you’re fighting a bug and the bug wins. Not fair, not at all. […]
Romance!
I’ve read romance novels since I was a thirteen year old living outside Nuremburg, Germany with my family. I started with Barbara Cartland’s (ooh how I loved those wicked dukes and earls and titles like The Impetuous Duchess!) and progressed on to Mills & Boon romances and then Harlequins and then historical romances by authors […]
Shey’s Story
I have spent a little too much time ‘researching’ online. In fact, I spent the entire weekend researching for Shey’s book, my Texas book, and I didn’t know that I actually went a little crazy at Amaon and eBay tracking down history books, cook books, memoirs, biographies, and more until the books started to arrive […]
Crazy Day
I am supposed to be hard at work on the revisions for my Harlequin book, but am instead struggling to figure out how to be in Jefferson, Texas next weekend for the 2009 Girlfriend Weekend and how to get my kids to the right places this weekend when their sports and activities completely overlap. But […]
Bellevue Book Signing
It’s Monday late morning and we’ve snow glittering on the trees and rooftops and temperatures are hovering in the mid twenties. With a a bright clear blue sky I can see the Olympics with breathtaking clarity and they’re just gorgeous–thickly powdered in snow and jutting jagged and white against the sky. The Seattle skyline looks miniscule compared […]
A Little Help from My Friends
Jo Leigh, a multi-Rita nominated author of numerous Harlequin lines, lost her husband in June to cancer. Unfortunately, like so many of us who are writers, or self-employed, or just juggling life, there wasn’t health insurance and now Jo has been left with catastrophic medical bills. A fabulous writer I admire very much named Allison Kent […]
Mama Mia
People ask me all the time if Surfer Ty is going to move to Bellevue now that we’re expecting, and I say no. We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing, which is being together and then apart, but then together again. We always find a way to get back to the other and sometimes we wait a month […]
I Saw It!
The promo ad for the Flirting movie on Lifetime. Producer friend, Lucy Mukerjee, emailed me at noon to say the movie trailer for Flirting with Forty has been running on Lifetime today so I turned on the tv, watched one and a half Lifetime movies and then I saw it. Snow flurries. Heather Locklear at […]
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