Move Over, Fifty Shades of Grey!
This has been such an amazing weekend! A couple of months ago, Amazon contacted me to tell me they wanted to feature one of my self-pubbed backlist books, Secret Lives, in a special promotion. I forgot all about it until I checked my Kindle sales report a few days ago and saw that Secret Lives…
Read MoreStory Weekend: Most Memorable Meal
Hmm. . . I’ll have to think about this one. I don’t want to get too hungry right before bed, so I’ll let you all go first. If you’re new to Story Weekend, here’s how it works: I pick a theme and you share something from your life that relates to that theme, however you…
Read MoreTV Ad for The Good Father in the United Kingdom
This popped up in my mailbox this morning. The Good Father is now available in the United Kingdom (and Ireland and Australia, etc) and my publisher sent me this short but to-the-point ad that will be running on British television for a couple of weeks. I think they did a great job of capturing the…
Read MoreChatting with my Readers
For those of you who missed it (and didn’t want to miss it!), here is the live chat I did through BookTrib.com last week. Readers could join in through a ‘chat roll’ and ask me questions. It’s an hour long, so watch as much or as little as you like. Enjoy!
Read MoreStory Weekend: Bugs
It’s Story Weekend! (It’s also the official release date of The Good Father in the UK and Australia). I was thinking of a topic for story weekend when, outside my window, I noticed the first firefly of the season. First firefly on June 1st. How perfect! So that’s your theme for this weekend: bugs! If…
Read MoreJoin Me for a Live Chat!
I’m so excited! This coming Thursday, May 31st, I’ll be doing a live chat with YOU. That is, if you’ll join me at BookTrib at 3pm, Eastern Time. All you have to do is become a member at BookTrib and RSVP, then show up at 3 on Thursday and you’ll see me on screen, ready…
Read MoreThe Printable Booklist for You!
Like the view? We just got in from the Surf City (NC) pier, where John filmed surfers and I snapped this shot with my phone. I’m allowed to play when I finish 4000 words each day. Deadline’s coming! But the real point of this post is to remind my readers that I have information on…
Read MoreStory Weekend: Envy
John taped two of my favorite shows for me while I was on my writers’ retreat: Mad Men and Smash. We watched them tonight and I thought about the theme that ran through both of those episodes: Envy. So that’s our theme for this weekend. I wonder how many of you will share your story?…
Read MoreWhy We Get So Much Done on Writing Retreats
I can tell you why in seven words: There is no Internet in our rooms. I’m with my usual writing friends (Mary Kay Andrews, Margaret Maron, Katy Munger, Sarah Shaber, Alexandra Sokoloff and Brenda Witchger) at our usual writing retreat locale (the Weymouth Center for the Arts) and we’re getting tons done. Every morning, Mary…
Read MoreStory Weekend: Dance!
I sit all day long when I’m writing, which is not good for the old bod. I used to set my alarm for every thirty minutes and when it buzzed, I’d get up and walk around the house before returning to my chair and the computer screen. When the new Springsteen Wrecking Ball album came…
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