It is a personal pleasure of mine to gift people with chocolate. Like sprinkling fairy dust or giving someone the power of invisibility–you know, those little joys that just make your day.
So I’m happy to report that this month I’ll be sending chocolate to:
RJM!
HOLLY T!
MARGARET F!
BRITTANIE M!
Congratulations! Enjoy your chocolate!
As for the rest [...]
For the past two days I’ve been indulging in the strange and wonderful pleasure of hearing a total stranger read my book out loud to me.
She’s Kaili Vernoff, and she’s the actress Listening Library/Random House hired to do the audio book.
At first it was really hard for me. The book and the characters didn’t [...]
I’m going to let Barry do my work for me today. He wrote this post yesterday while he sat in the Atlanta airport, having just missed his connection home from my book launch in Phoenix by FIVE MINUTES. Seriously, five minutes. And that was after running full speed through the airport. [...]
You guys, WOW. I mean wow as in I don’t fully have my regular brain back in my head. The events of these past few days have been so unreal–from the TV interview (which I saw on tape today–do I really look and sound like that? I remember being the woman in [...]
A certain writer friend of mine came up with this idea a while ago of reading other authors’ books before you meet them. I thought it was a GREAT idea. So this week, knowing I was going to have lunch with Tina Ferraro a few days ago, I read her YA novel Top [...]
I’m giving my first TV interview this morning. Don’t! Let’s not talk about it!
What I do want to mention is that yesterday I studied the Frequently Asked Questions sheet the news station sends to people to help them prepare for their interviews, and there’s some awfully helpful information on that. My favorite [...]
Yesterday our very own beloved Miri sent me this. Along with a note saying she’d bought it in an actual bookstore that very day.
It’s weird, but I’ve been feeling strangely disconnected from this whole the-book-is-actually-coming-out thing. I don’t know if it’s because I’m trying not to be nervous, or if (as Sara pointed [...]
I’m one of those people who believes the body pretty much knows what it needs, moment to moment. Sometimes it lets you know it’s missing the salsa nutrient, other times it’s a ginormous salad, or this week, for me, it’s been the “ch” food group: Chex Mix, Chocolate, and Cheese.
And I tell myself, [...]
Even though I did break my full-on addiction to chocolate last year, there are definitely times when chocolate is required. Like now–deadlines, first book coming out in just a few days, perhaps some hormonal issues you gents don’t need to know about–and rather than keep chocolate in the house we’ve been maintaining a practice [...]
Guess I should have paid attention yesterday when Bear was barking at the worker we could see out the window climbing up the phone pole. Because I’ve now been without phone or Internet since lunchtime yesterday. I’m sending this to you via the magic of cell phone tethered to laptop, but the cell [...]