and I don’t mind if Stephanie Meyer sells a few more books. This cracks me up. (Made by a clever someone called Spooky Dan.)

Saturday morning, P came home from breakfast at a local diner to find me standing about six feet from the television watching Kevin Bacon in Stir of Echoes. I’d started out watching it on the exercise bike about an hour before. I had my work schedule set for the day: to work out, get cleaned …Read More

Last week’s publishing news continues to reverberate in the most dramatic of ways. A NY Observer article describes the folks at 1745 Broadway–the home of Random House Publishers–as being in “complete emotional lockdown” (via). But my fearless editor Mark Tavani is always one to keep a cool head, and he’s stopped by to offer some …Read More

I just love making big announcements! Here are the winners of the goodies from Laura’s New Website Soiree: Signed Copies of Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts (just as soon as I get them!) Cynthia Todd Mary Carr A signed copy of the new trade paperback of Isabella Moon (ditto) The Walking Man $25 Barnes & Noble …Read More

About this time last year I ordered a very funny calendar from the 101 Reasons to Stop Writing folks. (Visit their site to read their latest lighthearted NaNoWriMo coverage. Think of them as the witty atheists in the bar at a Sunday School teacher convention.) I also got a pack of their “HORROR: The escalating …Read More

Welcome to the party! Have you checked out the site? I feel like I’ve been keeping my surprise party a secret from all of you for forever. My site’s been up for about a week now and a couple folks have mentioned it–quietly. But I wanted to have a special event to launch it because …Read More

I confess that–for much of my adult life–I was a book snob. There were certain categories of books that I had stopped reading because I had decided that they weren’t, well, serious. Romance novels were in that category. I’d read tons of Phyllis Whitney as a teenager (Spindrift is just the best title, ever.) and …Read More