The fine folks at Press 53, who recently published my sweet Pinckney’s gorgeous story collection, MIRACLE BOY and also publish our SURREAL SOUTH series, are doing a good deed for our soldiers. If you purchase any Press 53 book between now and Flag Day, June 14th, Press 53 will send a copy of the book …Read More

Every week or so I get an email from the Red Room Author/Reader site that tosses out a blog topic. For whatever reason, this one appealed to me. A couple of years ago, I signed up at Red Room as an author, but it seems I’ve since disappeared. But, never one to waste a blog, …Read More

I’m not sure why I’m so surprised to find that my second Shiny Object Saturday subject is another home labor-saving device.  It probably has much to do with my being born under the sun sign Cancer. (Did anyone else devour this book as a teenager?) We’re reputed to be homebodies, and I think I am, …Read More

I’m just about to finish reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for the sixth or seventh time. I don’t have an exact count, but my daughter tells me that we have at least three copies of the novel in the house. At first, I didn’t notice that this particular edition had extra goodies packed into it: …Read More

In high school I was never assigned the novels CATCH-22, CATCHER IN THE RYE, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, or LORD OF THE FLIES. So I never read them. I remember reading some Dostoevsky, THE GREAT GATSBY, a lot of Shakespeare,  and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. The program I was in was advanced–and it was …Read More

Did you ever buy something and just fall in love with it immediately? That’s exactly how I felt when I bought Pinckney a Keurig one-cup coffee maker for his office for Christmas. It was so cute, so compact, so…sensible. We frequently spend big bucks on coffee at Panera. We rarely make pots of coffee at …Read More

One of my favorite J.T. Ellison quotes is, “Just how many serial killers can Nashville have?” J.T. is the bestselling author of the Taylor Jackson thriller novel series set in that fair city. In this interview, she reminds me that not all of the Taylor Jackson books are serial killer tales–but it’s certainly the case …Read More