Until this week I hadn’t written consistently, or very much, in a long time. I hadn’t done the real writing that connects me back inside my self, the writing that cements soul to skin. Instead I’ve been doing marketing things, promo things, the things I’d rather have a publicist do but there are few publicists […]
Category: Publicity
A Perfect Day in Atlanta
Let me tell you about my favorite day in Atlanta last week during the RWA conference. Esther Levine has been a media escort for twenty years and she knows the book business, particularly in Atlanta where she’s escorted many of the world’s most famous authors from airport to media appearance to book event. And as […]
Not Daring to Sleep
When I was growing up, and even in college, I couldn’t bear to fall asleep on Christmas Eve or Christmas Night. I’d stretch out on the living room floor near the fireplace and watch the fire burn low, and with all the overhead lights off, look at the Christmas tree standing in the corner. Without […]
Dishing with the Divas
I’ve just returned with my boys from Reno where we went for a day and a half to see my mom and catch up with my brother Thom, his wife Lee, and their two little girls. Thom lives in North Carolina and doesn’t get to the West Coast very often and my boys were dying […]
Bra Hopping
The Flirting with Forty book release party is just two days away and I had a list of endless errands to get done today, among them buying more drink cups, order blown up book covers at Kinko’s, deliver vases to florist for tropical arrangements, and confirm with the musicians, a Hawaiian trio composed of University […]
Crabs and Ticks
I haven’t posted in a long time. I thought about posting almost daily, but each time when I got close enough to the computer to write something for my blog, I backed away and checked email instead. You see, I’m been afraid to post as I’m afraid I’m going to be myself. I’m going to […]
This Is Your Reminder
Yes, I’m pestering you. Again. What do you expect from someone called Jane the Pain? (And that was by my sister, Kathy, no less.) This is your reminder blog. My one day fire sell book club donation to www.brendanovak.com diabetes auction is live for one day only, and that’s Monday May 22nd. Bring me to […]
A Good Cause
Cinco de Mayo means different things to different people. My bud Lisa Johnson owns three Mexican cantinas and so the 5th of May means lots of extra work. For Ty and his surf crowd in Hawaii Cinco de Mayo means beer. For Brenda Novak, an amazing Harlequin and Mira writer, it means managing her labor […]
Women & Story
Last week I was pushing hard to finish a book before hopping on a plane for Honolulu to participate in Hawaii’s first Book & Music Festival. I’d been scheduled months earlier to speak but the topic hadn’t been firmed up until two weeks prior and only then was it decided that I’d address, ‘Why Women […]
Literary Lions
I hurt. Not mentally, it’s more of a bruised ego thing, as well as a shin, arm and shoulder thing, too. You see I fell down the stairs tonight at a big event. In front of everyone. Just when I was feeling so literary. Back up–set scene, Bellevue’s big downtown library, elegant evening fundraiser honoring […]
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