I’m telling you, traveling just kicks my butt. There wasn’t enough napping in the world to take care of me yesterday. I’m still tired today.
I know there are a lot of you out there–including Deborah, Patrick, and Jen–who travel all the time. Weekly, in some cases. And you people are still [...]
You know how sometimes my office looks like this?
Yeah, well I wish. Lately it’s been about three times as bad, if you can imagine that. (Notice the dead plant out the window, by the way. I’m that good with green things.)
So my incredibly kind thing to myself this week was first asking [...]
Thank you, Annette, for sending me this last night.
And in an interesting fluke of timing, right at that same moment my husband was watching The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and they were doing a piece on how Jack Kerouac’s On the Road still sells over 100,000 copies a year. A YEAR. And my [...]
I got an e-mail from someone on Monday, Labor Day, apologizing for bothering me on the holiday, then adding, “But you writers never really take a day off, right?” Righto, little one.
I know I’m not the only one having this experience: National holidays mean nothing. Weekends mean nothing. 5:00 means nothing. [...]
I forgot! Until Patrick reminded me two minutes ago, I had no idea what day it is! SO sorry. Here you go.
My great read for the week was Diana Peterfreund’s Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel, the follow-up to last year’s Secret Society Girl, which was also great fun.
See, when [...]
I’ve gotten so many great ideas, and some volunteer moderators to go with them! Thank you!
This is not the final roster, but we’re getting close. Now is the time for all of you who have ideas to send them to me so I can compile our final conference schedule.
Here are some of the [...]
It started last week at my book launch event. My big brother/designated heckler (because I am, after all, his little sister) wanted to know if maybe my editor decided my book was just three letters too long, and that’s the only reason why I hadn’t included my brother’s name in my Acknowledgments.
Then instead of [...]