I’m sitting at Newark waiting to board my flight back to Seattle after a weekend in New Jersey for my final Mrs. Perfect book events. I feel like it’s the last day of school before summer after a hectic round of exams. No more traveling to promote Mrs Perfect, no more book clubs, no more […]
Category: Publicity
Busy Bee
I am writing at last. It only took me weeks and migraines and moments of intense fear and self-loathing to make myself sit down, unplug the #$%! modem and write. I now have a complete chapter one and chapter two is nearly finished and I have hope. There will be a book. And it will […]
Queen Jane
I have a friend who used to call me QJ, or Queen Jane because well, I love to be the boss, and I love being loved, and I love sparkly energy and good as well as beautiful things. It’s true. And while I don’t ask, or expect, anyone to call me QJ, I do love days […]
Back at Sea-Tac
It’s Monday quarter to seven in the evening and I’m back at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, or for those of us who seem to live here, Sea-Tac. In just minutes I board my Alaska flight for San Francisco and this is just after a quickie trip to Leavenworth for a Sunday full of book events, first at […]
Launch Party Success
Despite all my nervous nilly ways, last week’s launch party was a huge success and in hindsight, I needn’t have been nervous. 120 people attended at the bookstore. 100 copies of Mrs. Perfect were sold–plus thirty more of Odd Mom and Flirting and Frog. Since September when Odd Mom Out debuted at the Bellevue Barnes […]
Launching Mrs Perfect
It’s here. Mrs. Perfect is here, on the shelves, and tomorrow night I celebrate the launch of Mrs. Perfect with a fun new release party at Bellevue’s Barnes & Noble followed by chocolate-tinis and dessert at Ooba’s. I’ve done this four times now. I should be an old pro by now. Instead I’m nervous. I am […]
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Being Reviewed
I changed. Getting published–and reviewed–changed me. In the beginning, way back in March 2001 when I had my first Harlequin Presents published, the bad reviews floored me. I felt humiliated in a very public way. The Romantic Times and Amazon reviews haunted me, playing through my head endlessly. It took me 15 years to sell that first […]
Waist Not
I’ll be honest. I think my face looks pretty good for 44. It’s got lines around the eyes, and some saggy stuff near the mouth so I’ve learned to work a smile since it hides the droopies. I’ve known for a couple years that if I bend over and look down on something, the skin around my eyeballs […]
Flirting Film
The Flirting with Forty movie is officially in production. April 1st with cast and crew in Calgary, the film began shooting. My producer contact, Lucy Mukerjee, has been watching the dailies and she reports it’s all going really well. They’re filming the scenes that took place in what was Seattle but now sounds like Denver. On Tuesday […]
The Rita Rules
Within Romance Writers of America, which is the granddaddy of the organizations dedicated to promoting excellence in fiction for women, there is one award that reigns supreme and that’s the Ritas. The Ritas are a bit like the Oscars except we aren’t judging the best films of the year but the best books. I’ve been […]
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