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Conference Season: Travel

The first time I flew to New York for a conference, I took the red eye. From California to New York, leaving at midnight and landing around six a.m. I thought I was being so smart … saving a night in the hotel, the flight was cheaper, I could sleep on the plane …

Not.

I was completely dead the next day, I couldn’t check into my room until after twelve noon (meaning no shower, no nap, no downtime at all …) and I never really felt like myself for the rest of the conference. I swore I would never do it again, choosing instead to waste a day traveling so I could come in, check into the hotel, sleep, and wake up refreshed.

Except, this Thrillerfest, I’m taking the red eye again.

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Tagged with: airports, conferences, planes, travel
Posted in Allison Brennan, Writing & Publishing

Travel, With Kids

I was an only child. Wherever my mom went, so did I. My grandparents took me camping often in their trailer, and my grandpa had a cabin in Woodside where I spent many, many weekends either with him and my grandma or with my cousin, Matt.

When it was just Dan, me and Katie, travel was relatively easy. Sure, we needed extra clothes, and diapers, and bottles, and a host of other baby supplies, but once we got used to having a third, travel wasn’t all that difficult. Even when Kelly came, it was manageable. Two parents, two kids. Easy, peasy.

We don’t travel a lot. We do a lot of day trips, but as our family grew, our money shrank, and vacations became a lot more complicated. One of the hardest things was the age range in the kids — the older kids could do much more than the younger kids. Longer hikes, longer drives, bigger rides. So our two big family trips in the last few years were Disneyland and Lake Tahoe. And while we all had fun, it was exhausting. Not much of a vacation!

However, I’m rethinking this after our very successful two days in Los Angeles.

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Tagged with: Allison Brennan, bittersweet memories, family, kids, travel
Posted in Allison Brennan, Life, Love, & All That Jazz

Love Locks

One of the highlights of my summer was a place I stumbled onto purely by accident. I was in Paris visiting some relatives when my youngest daughter tugged on my sleeve and said, “Mom, look. The Lock Bridge.”

Despite having read our Lonely Planet travel guide, I had no idea what she was talking about. Turns out, she was referring to the Pont des Arts, the bridge in Paris that recently appeared in the summer movie Now You See Me.

The tradition started a few years ago when

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Tagged with: Laura Griffin, love locks, Paris, Pont des Arts, sliderpost, travel
Posted in Laura Griffin, Life, Love, & All That Jazz

The Accidental Tourist

My sister has a way of lucking into cool things when she travels. She calls herself the Accidental Tourist, and if you travel with her you get to be one, too.

We were on vacation together in France last week, rambling around the countryside visiting Roman ruins and vineyards when we got wind of the fact that the Tour de France was about to blow through town.

Now, I’m not a cycling buff by any stretch of the imagination, but this sounded exciting! Maybe even worth skipping a few wineries–especially since this year is the 100th Tour de France.

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Tagged with: Exposed, France, giveaway, Laura Griffin, new release, romantic suspense, sliderpost, Tour de France, travel
Posted in Laura Griffin, Miscellaneous

Murder HE Writes: Boyd Morrison

I’m thrilled to welcome Boyd Morrison to Murder She Writes! He writes fabulous action-adventures that take place all over the world with impeccable research and larger-than-life characters you can root for. I particularly love his hero Tyler Locke. Because I really enjoyed THE LOCH NESS LEGACY, I’m gifting a digital copy to one lucky commenter — just say ‘hi” to Boyd! (And I think you’ll agree, after you read the following, that Boyd is the hero of his own romance novel!) ~ Allison

Partners in Crime

By Boyd Morrison

Writing can be a lonely job, just you and the computer for hours a day (the voices in your head don’t count). But eventually everyone needs some kind of collaborator, whether that’s a co-writer, a writing group, an agent, or an editor. I’m lucky enough to live with mine.

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Tagged with: Boyd Morrison, marriage, Research, sliderpost, The Loch Ness Legacy, travel, Tyler Locke, writing
Posted in Allison Brennan, Writing Life

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