It’s so much fun to go visiting on other people’s blogs. They keep them so nice and tidy and up-to-date, unlike mine which tends to gather dust bunnies while I write a new book and can’t think of anything interesting to say. I’ve always loved the Bare Necessities column that Rebecca Joines Schinsky posts on her wonderful site, The Book...

I am so excited. My book, The Stuff That Never Happened, is being featured on Free Book Friday. You’ll never believe what they do on that site. Yep, they give away free books every Friday. And who doesn’t want a free book? Normally writers like it if people buy books instead…but I’m always in favor of people getting free stuff whenever...

I’ve been thinking a lot about characters lately, probably because some new people have recently moved into my head. Like summer tenants, they are rowdy and noisy, self-absorbed, taking the place over like they have full rights to everything. They’re waking me up in the middle of the night, co-opting my attention, forcing me to get out of bed and write...

I am not one to complain about modern technological advances–where would I be without toaster pizza, for instance?–but I think that certain things might have been just a teeny tiny bit easier before the Internet knew everything about us and forced us to become the CEOs of our own public relations firms. Take book publishing, for instance. In the old days,...

We don’t do well with titles in my family. It’s some kind of naming dyslexia, probably not identified yet in the DSM-IV. So the other day when my daughter told me she was going to the movies to see “The Children Are Doing Just Fine,” I knew right away she was going to see the Julianne Moore/Annette Bening movie, “The Kids Are All...

I’m writing a new novel, which is another way of saying that I am obsessed with picking crumbs out from between the keys of my laptop, reading up on and worrying about Lindsay Lohan, clearing out my spam folder every 15 minutes or so, comparing my horoscopes from different astrologers, brushing up on Spider Solitaire, and looking around for new things to...

It is no longer so hot here that you want to take off all your clothes and pour ice water all over yourself, so that means that it’s possibly safe to think about love again.  We’ve been in a love  moratorium for some time now on the East coast. It’s a safety issue. You can’t survive long if you get too close to another human being when...