Yeah, I'm still kind of boring over here, other than the fact that I got to have dinner with the #7 Book Club this week to chat about STAY, publishing, and the writing process. They were eager for a sequel and full of opinions as to what Diane might be up to these days. It was awesome. And I got to hear a very funny story from one of the members about trying to replace her library copy of STAY after it fell in the bathtub. The #7 ladies (who have been meeting for about 15 years!) are amazing and hysterical, and I had a lovely time. I love the way meeting with fellow book lovers always … [Read more...]
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I love seeing what keywords bring people to my blog. Here are the latest:valentine's day giveawayallie larkinstuck in dressallie galallie larkin incidentsallie larkin stayget stuck in a dress for eternityally larkindreaded lurgybug hair folliclebuttless jeans … [Read more...]
100 Things – 80-86
So, here's the thing. I'm kind of boring when I'm writing. I can't tell you what's going on with my characters right now, and that's really the bulk of what's going on with me at the moment. But I realized the other day that I started the 100 things meme and stopped at 79 in May of 2009. I think it's time to get back to it!80. I compose e-mails in my head while I'm away from the computer. Which is great, until I think I've actually sent the email when I haven't. I wish there were a way to just download my thoughts and send them. I've tried dictation software, but it's not effective for … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Randy Susan Meyers & The Murderer’s Daughters
The Murderer's Daughtersby Randy Susan Meyers has gotten rave reviews in hardcover. It just came out in paperback this week and it's the most recent Target Club Pick, so I thought it would be a great choice for this week's book trailer.Here's the description:Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father drives them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girl's self-obsessed mother. After she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly.Lulu's mother warned her to never let him in, but when he shows up, he's impossible to … [Read more...]
A Valentine’s Day Giveaway!
Who couldn't use a little extra love for Valentine's Day?The lovely Kate Ledger, author of Remedies, sent me four copies of The Dogs' Book of Romance -- advice on love and relationships from our four-legged friends -- for a Valentine's Day giveaway!To sweeten the pot, I've put together a Valentine's gift bag (pictured above) for you and your favorite pup. Three lucky readers will get a copy of The Dogs' Book of Romance and one lucky reader will get a copy of the book plus a gift bag filled with goodies!The gift bag includes:For you:A copy of The Dogs Book of RomanceThe Madelaine Chocolate Co. … [Read more...]
Guest Post: How I Became a Daughter of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
In bleak midwinter 2002, I moved to rural Lancashire, in northern England, an incongruous place for an American expat. The first months were so oppressively dark, I felt I was trapped inside some claustrophobic gothic novel. But then came spring in a tide of bluebells and hawthorn. The wild Pennine landscape cast its spell on me. I live at the foot of Pendle Hill, famous throughout the world as the place where George Fox received his vision that moved him to found the Quaker religion in 1652. But Pendle is also steeped in its legends of the Lancashire Witches.In 1612, seven women … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Juliette Fay & Deep Down True
I've been meaning to blog all week, but I've been completely lost in my manuscript. It's a good thing, but I get to the end of my writing day and I'm kind of shocked that I'm still me. It's a little disorienting. Like watching a movie that's completely engrossing and when it's suddenly over, walking through the doors of the movie theatre back to the normal world seems surprising. Or like the time The Other 1/4 watched the entire first season of Heroes around the same time that I did. She called and said, "You know, the only thing I didn't like about it --""--was when you stopped watching … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Kelly O’Connor McNees & The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
I read Little Women in fourth grade, and was completely and totally mesmerized. It was the first book that made me feel like I was living inside the story while I read it, because I was so emotionally invested in the characters. I'd enjoyed reading up until then, but Little Women is the book that made me a reader, and it's still one of my all time favorites.Little Women was also the book that sparked my interested in writers. The woman behind the Little Women is just as interesting as the book itself. Louisa May Alcott was a student of several members of the Transcendental Club, an … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday Video – Dog Wrestling
Book Trailer Fridays – Tatjana Soli & The Lotus Eaters
I re-read The Things They Carried for book club a few months ago. It is a stunning book, and I'm completely in awe of Tim O'Brien. So, my TBR pile has gotten a little taller, since discovering that he had this to say about The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli:"Set amid the twin infernos of Cambodia and Vietnam in the early 1970's, The Lotus Eaters draws the reader into a haunting world of war, betrayal, courage, obsession, and love. Tatjana Soli's spare, lucid prose infuses this novel with a dramatic clarity that makes us eyewitnesses to the collapse of two civilizations. More than that, The … [Read more...]
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