Okay, there’s no sex on this Northern Queensland beach but I got your attention, didn’t I, and that’s what counts. I love Australia because Aussies must be a bit like me–mad about their email and internet connections because there are internet cafes everywhere. Even at the post office. I can do so much at Australia […]
Category: Travel Girl
Techie Hell
Technology and I do not make good bedfellows. In fact, technology and I do not make nice, well, ever. I understand the ATM, and have learned to make that work for me, but computers leave me baffled, particularly when Microsoft updates its software and quietly dispenses with rival software on my system, insensitively dispensing with […]
Bye Bye Miss American Pie
I’m heading to Los Angeles tomorrow with kids where we’ll meet Surfer Ty who is also flying in from Hawaii. In the evening we’ll board a Qantas flight to Australia, landing in Sydney on Thursday before hopping to Cairns on Saturday for 5 nights. All told, we’ll be gone two weeks with four of those […]
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 […]
Fly Girl
On Sunday (two days ago) I had to be in Reno for a 1 pm Book Club discussion. The book group had picked Frog Prince last summer as it’s May selection and I’d agreed to attend the discussion as a visiting guest author. Even better, this was my mom’s book club and it meant a […]
Viva Las Vegas
I’m dashing off to the aiport in a bit for a noon flight to Las Vegas. I’m going for just a night and will be home in time for dinner tomorrow. My great friend, the Australian romance writer Lilian Darcy, is there with her family now and as I don’t get to see her often, […]
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 […]
Ready for Reno
I’m all packed and heading to the airport to fly to Reno in the next hour for RWA’s annual conference. Last year’s conference was Dallas, the year before that it was NYC, the year before Denver. It’s exciting going somewhere different for each conference and my conferences have gotten busier and busier with agent, editor […]
Defending the Craft
I’m back in Fresno, California for a long weekend and am traveling with Teresa Medeiros’ ‘Yours Until Dawn’ and really enjoying it, but then as everyone here probably knows, I love wounded alpha heroes. If a powerful alpha is great, a powerful wounded alpha is even better. There are authors who write witty, sexy romps, […]
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 […]
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