I woke up awhile ago. It was dark and hard to open my eyes as I slept in my contact lenses and forgot to pack the eye drops and glasses. Last week on the road in California Surfer Ty surprised me with a little lense kit to hold everything and I’d meant to bring it […]
Category: Book Talk
Uh, Hello God it’s Me
This is my first post from the road on the much anticipated ODD MOM OUT book tour and it’s an interesting book tour so far. The book part of the tour is going fine. My personal life is not so fine and Ken my poor media escort of the past 3 days has been subjected […]
I’m Not Marta
The Bellevue Barnes & Noble Launch Party on Thursday night for Odd Mom Out wasn’t just successful–with over 100 guests–we also sold out. 150 copies sold and we were short about 20. Fortunately a shipment of 40 arrived Friday noon. I dropped by the bookstore to sign their stock and by this morning they only […]
Shameless
Shameless self-promotion, that’s what this blog is all about. I think I’ve asked for reader reviews and support before, but I’ve never come out and said, “please, sir, may I have some more?” (from the musical Oliver Twist, a childhood favorite) but I’m asking now. I’m asking those of you who write me and tell […]
ODD MOM OUT Countdown
I think we’re down to 18 days now before Odd Mom Out hits the store shelves on September 27th. I felt my first flutter of nerves this morning as I addressed event postcards for my book tour that begins October 3rd and doesn’t wrap up until just before Thanksgiving. Readers and reviewers continue to tell […]
Finally
I have been writing pretty much night and day since July 28th to take Alpha Mom from fifty pages of notes, scenes and ideas into a 550 page manuscript. Essentially I spent the past month writing a chapter a day with a few extra days thrown in at the end for editing and revision. A […]
The Odd Mom Out Book Tour
I’m going to be on the road again starting October 3rd and traveling until Thanksgiving Weekend speaking, reading and doing Odd Mom Out booksignings. Probably the hardest week of travel though will be the very first week of the tour, the California leg where I fly into Los Angeles October 3rd and a week later […]
Little Epiphanies
I had an email this week from a reader and she’d just read Flirting with Forty and she loved it. Loved it. She felt like I was inside her head and she said she hadn’t read a book she’d loved this much in so long. And then I did a double take and it wasn’t […]
More on That Hot Read
I stayed up last night until nearly 2 am wolfing through Claiming The Courtesan and then backing up to reread Anna’s gorgeous prose. Her book is so much on my mind this morning and it’s because I haven’t read anything like this in years. Anna’s characters are fantastic–both great and tragic, heroic and broken, proud […]
Hot Read!
Having just returned from five days in Dallas for Romance Writers of America’s annual conference, I’ve heard a lot about books in the last few days. I’ve talked writing, taught writing, presented to librarians, spoken with my agent and editors at length and came home with an earful of info and two suitcases of books. […]
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