I’m still on vacation (sorry, Jordan) but thought this, being the last day of the year, would be a good time to look back. That, and I have a serious sunburn and need to stay out of the sun today.
In terms of writing, it’s been a great year. I have an [...]

Taking a brief break from my vacation lethargy to plug a book. For once, it’s for someone else’s book. Isn’t that a nice change?
While lounging on the beach (have I mentioned how much I love my in-laws and how much I love the fact they live in Hawaii??), I picked up The Royal [...]

Happy Holidays and be very grateful you don’t live next to this guy…or pay his electric bill.

While I’ve been enjoying the fun and sun in Hawaii (yes, I plan to rub that in every chance I get), Alex Keegan posted a comment to one of my July blog posts. I’m thinking this was an end-of-the-year google issue. Problem is, he posted to the old typepad blog, so [...]

Today we take off for two weeks in Hawaii. Before anyone begins cursing, this is all about visiting the relatives and doing some book research. No, really. My in-laws actually live there. And, my current book - that would be the one I’m supposed to be writing - takes place in [...]

People type in some very strange phrases on yahoo and goggle and other search engines and then somehow end up at my blog. Many make me chuckle. Some make me worry about what people are doing in the privacy of their own homes. A few convince me that people spend far too much [...]

This is the time of year for lists. The Best of this. The Best of that. Not to be left out of this great list debate, People magazine devoted an entire double issue to the lists of 2005. People created a list for everything. There’s even a little [...]

I’m susceptible to a sharp cover, a clever title and snappy copy. If you’ve read this blog before you already know that. Call me shallow and easy to please.
This time my obsession has centered on Jennifer Sturman. What caught my eye was the cover for her newest The Jinx. [...]

Stephen King is a list man. He’s dedicated his last few Entertainment Weekly columns to his Best Of… lists. This week his column is titled My 2005 Picks: Books. He starts off by talking about a friend who just received her first publishing contract. She’s excited because she said [...]

I saw this sale notice in Publishers Lunch:
FICTION: GENERAL/OTHER
28-year old Emily Davies’ HOW TO WEAR BLACK: Adventures on Fashion’s Front-line, a memoir of her four years as fashion writer for London’s Times, immersed in a surreal, luxurious and terrifying world of lavish gifts, fashionably skeletal obsessives and couture warfare, to Sarah McGrath at Scribner, in [...]