If you haven’t checked out the discussion by Wendy and Kassia about Jennifer Crusie’s re-release of Anyone But You at PBR - go check it out. They are funny and smart. They share a love for all things Crusie but manage to find fault. Then there’s the part where they did so [...]

I’ve always believed in the power of covers. While checking out the future releases section over at Chick Lit Books, I came across this book, Goodbye, Jimmy Choo by Annie Sanders. It looks as if this was a UK release in 2004. It’s coming out here in April 2006 (a wonderful time [...]

I got an email over the weekend asking how I dealt with rejection before I sold. The real answer is this: I just did. I dealt with it - like everyone else deals with it - because the only other option was to stop writing and that wasn’t a [...]

Over the weekend I saw Les Miserables at the National Theater in D.C. I have seen this show more times than I care to admit - in more than one country, more than one state. Call it an obsession. Well, Les Miserables is off Broadway now. It’s touring for the last [...]

There’s a book out there called The High Impact Infidelity Diet by Lou Harry and Eric Pfeffinger. The good news is that this is fiction not self help. Since I’m at a bit of a loss over what to say about this book, I’ll go with the publisher’s description:
A WHOLE NEW WAY TO [...]

Every now and then people ask me if I plan to quit my day job as a result of selling my first book. These same people are usually looking for a loan of some sort. Since my first sale was for a novella where I got about $1.32 and a cheese sandwich for [...]

This book sale in Publishers Marketplace jumped out at me. Think of it as the anti-Maureen Dowd book. It goes like this:
FICTION: DEBUT
Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker’s SAVE THE MALES, a humorous yet poignant look at the way men have been under siege in American culture and how they have been over-domesticated and mistreated, [...]

There’s a bit of a brouhaha over RomancingThe Blog . You can read it for yourself. This is one of those issues we can talk about until we vomit and still never reach an agreement. Some people believe the only acceptable reviews are ones that give authors 5 stars, 5 puppies, [...]

Stumbled across an interesting book while reading People over the weekend. This Day In The Life is a “satisfying collection of diaries from 34 women across America” and details the events in the life of each on a normal, otherwise unremarkable day - June 29, 2004. There’s only one celebrity diary (Roseanne [...]

James Frey writes a little known book called A Million Little Pieces. Oprah picks it up and now Frey has sold something like a billion copies. That’s a slight exaggeration, but you get the point. With all that notoriety there was bound to be trouble. According to Publishers Lunch the trouble [...]