I have a new home. A new internet home, that is. As promised, www.helenkaydimon.com is now live. Pretty, isn’t it?
If you’re getting the old version of the blog through typepad, re-direct your link, bookmark or whatever to:
http://www.helenkaydimon.com/blog/
We’re in the process of moving the blog from Typepad to Wordpress - [...]

I need to check out for a few days.  See, Mica from Dream Forge Media is finishing up my website - yeah!!.  In order to launch www.helenkaydimon.com (you can click on the link but nothing interesting will happen until Tuesday) as planned, Mica’s hubby Walt needs to switch my blog from its current home to [...]

My August 2006 release is called Viva Las Bad Boys! You probably know that if you ever glance over at my sidebar.  For those not reading my sidebar…please read the sidebar ’cause that’s my only promotion at the moment.
Anyway, it’s a single author anthology that takes place - have you guessed? - in Las [...]

A new book is coming out, Chip Kidd: Book One Work: 1986-2006.  Who is Chip Kidd?  Okay, I have to admit I didn’t know until Details magazine told me.  He’s "the most acclaimed book-jacket designer of the past two decades."  So, now you know.  The book includes covers, drafts and anecdotes.  And, here’s my favorite, [...]

Some authors spend a lot of time and calories insisting they don’t write chick lit.  Some other folks spend a lot of time and calories putting down anything that remotely might fit into the chick lit category.  All that annoys me.  So, when I saw the cover of November’s Writer’s Digest, I picked it up. [...]

I admit I’m not a fan of the term pre-published.  Frankly, I don’t think it really means anything.  You’re either published or not.  But, as Melissa Banks points out in November’s Writer’s Digest, being a writer is a different thing:
Young writers are always dying to be published because that’s the way the world tells you [...]

I was jumping around blogland yesterday.  Shannon McKelden’s blog led me to The (Mis) Adventures of a Single City Chick blog and then onto Jane Porter’s blog.  Yeah, no procrastination issues here.
In her October 18th entry, Jane talks about the need to take some time off.  The topic is really about balance and priorities and [...]

My deep, dark secret: I have never read a thing by Diana Gabaldon.  Never.  I’ve been told her books are amazing.  I’ve heard Gabaldon speak.  She told me her books are amazing.  I’m sure she wouldn’t lie to me.  The good news for Gabaldon is that I appear to be the only person on the [...]

I’ve been stalking the Downtown Press Website.  Something about this line interests me.  I’m a fan of trade paperbacks.  I like the woman-on-a-journey concept.  I’m thinking the packaging is a big part of what’s luring me in.  What’s happened a few times is this:  I go into a bookstore, see some covers I really like, [...]

Lev Grossman has been busy over at Time.  He’s been picking the Top 100 Books since 1923, the year in which Time began publishing.  Now, I have to admit , Lev and I don’t always see eye-to-eye.  I further admit there are a few choices on this list that, well, let’s just say I wasn’t [...]