As if I didn’t have enough distractions at my desk, on my computer, to keep me from writing. And now I have another. Logitech Video. It’s like MSN Messenger with video and sound, only I can’t really get the video and sound to synch live so right now I’m in a training phase of emailing […]
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Snow Birds & Beach Girls
I’m not a snow bird or a beach girl. I am, to be quite honest, incredibly unathletic when it comes to skates, skateboards, surfboards, skis and snowboards. Anything requiring balance, edge, coordination, confidence, and speed is pretty much, not in my skill set. My skill set? Slow, grounded, immobile, fixed, quiet, contemplative. There we go. […]
Numbers Game
Other authors tell me I’m pretty promo savvy. They say my name is really out there in the genre, and that The Frog Prince was everywhere. I’d like to think it was everywhere, but it wasn’t, not really, not to the extent I want it to be. Lots of Border and Barnes & Noble stores […]
Bogging in Blogland
Em, my web designer, warned me before I started my online diary/ JaneBlog last May that there would be problems with it. She knew I’d get busy, that I might come to resent the time required to update it; she feared I’d write too much that was too personal and not really useful in terms […]
Booking It
I’m in Los Angeles to join a Pi Phi alumni group tonight. I’m a bit fuzzy on the details—i.e., is this a book club, or just an alumni group? And are we discussing The Frog Prince, or the writing life? Fortunately I’ve learned to wing it pretty well–those 6+ years of teaching have come in […]
Blogging Q & A
Having a blog is changing things…changing me. So many of you write to me after you read my blog and I’m amazed. For years I’ve felt like a scrapper, one of those street urchins that learns to talk tough and walk tall, calling myself a lone wolf kind of woman and now I realize I’m […]
Fast Reads
I was asked by a book club in San Diego who’d chosen The Frog Prince as their book selection for October if I’d be willing to participate in their book discussion via a conference call. I agreed and last night at eight I was put on speakerphone and for twenty-five minutes I answered whatever questions […]
Conference
Conference is crazy. It always is. Doesn’t matter where it�s held, or who the keynote speakers are, conference is conference which means two thousand writers, editors, agents and industry exes are trying to accomplish business. What kind of business? Well, lots of it is meet and greet–shaking hands, kissing cheeks, smiling broadly, nodding politely. Some […]
Just the Facts, Ma’am
I’m really glad I went to Texas, really glad I organized a nearly two month book tour that covered 7 states as well as a weekend in British Columbia. I’m glad I decided I’d get behind the book–not just with ads, but with my face, my time, my energy and my ideas. But I’m also […]
For The Girls
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 […]
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