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Yes, there is a new TOTLANDIA book due next month. (Number 3, The Onesies, Spring, fyi; I’m in edits on it now.) And yes, the
Oh, the places you’ll go! Oh, the plots you’ll conceive!
After putting out four books this year, as well as a novella, I was happy that an unexpected financial windfall allowed me to get away
Great expectations, greater conclusions to a wonderful year.
Over the next three weeks, I’ll have the joy of walking along the banks of three rivers: the Thames, the Rhine, and the Seine. It’s a
The truth about the movie, Looper: great story, fab characters, great entertainment.
I’m not old school, so the metaphor of being hog-tied to a Olivetti with an inky typewriter ribbon doesn’t apply. However, I do live at my
The Big Chicken
Novelist Thomas Wolfe, who wrote the Southern Gothic novel Look Homeward Angel, once made the claim, “You can’t go home again.” Today, he’d be biting
What to Do Instead of a Pity Party: Write, Write, Write!
I’m still sobbing about the fact that I wasn’t able to hang with the other Murder She Writes ladies this week at the Romance Writers
Stranger than Fiction
I see live plots. Everywhere. Sorry, but I do. It drives my husband crazy that we’ll go to a movie, and even as I get
Luck had nothing to do with it. (Okay, maybe a little something…)
When I was, like, eight, I begged my mother for a lucky rabbit’s foot. (Don’t ask me why people feel these are so lucky. I’m
50,000 Shades of Pink, and Growing…
Welcome to my pity party: I did NOT win the $640 million Mega Millions Lotto. If you hold the lucky ticket, you can now consider
AWKWARD! (As in family photos…)
I scratched my head when I read that the guys who started AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com got a two-book deal… Well, what do ya know? When the first


















