Posts Tagged ‘Diane Chamberlain’
The Excellent Topsail Island 20 Year Anniversary Party!
John and I just got home from our weekend on Topsail Island. I’ll add more pictures soon, but for now I wanted to share a bit about the party. To recap, at the beginning of the year I asked…
Read MoreGoing Crazy
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. Yes, it’s that time of year when I start to lose my marbles. It always happens around now, three months before deadline. Deadlines are always challenging,…
Read MoreHoney Baby Sweetie, or One of Many Reasons I Love the South
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. This morning I wrote a scene in which a man and woman, just getting to know each other, are out to dinner in a North Carolina…
Read MoreThe Videos: An Unexpected Bonus
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. When I created the new videos about “my writing life” for my website, my plan was simply to answer the questions I’m frequently asked, so that when readers…
Read MoreThe "Frequently Asked Questions" Videos
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. The short videos John and I made are now up on the video page of my website. I created these to address the questions I’m…
Read MoreWhat a Weekend! Part Two. . .
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. So, as I mentioned, we checked into our hotel, the Blockade Runner, in Wrightsville Beach. The hotel was hosting the annual convention of the North Carolina…
Read MoreThe Contest: Would You Like a Vacation on Topsail Isand?
I’m thrilled to unveil the contest we’ve been waiting for! A while back, I asked you, my blog readers, for ways I could celebrate my twenty year anniversary as an author with you. Frequent commenter, Glen Pierce, took the ball and ran with it! Glen lives on Topsail Island, North Carolina, the setting for Before the…
Read MoreWhy We Write About What We Write About
Do you have a favorite author? And if you do, have you noticed how often the same themes emerge in his or her work? Oh, the stories might be very different from one another, but if you stop to think about them,…
Read MoreWebsite Update!
My website’s had a bit of an update that I want to share with you. The layout is different for the home page, the books page and a few other areas here and there. Secrets She Left Behind , available May 26th, is now the featured book, and you can read Chapter One if you…
Read MoreGetting Ready for the Mini-Interviews
Tomorrow, the good quality video camera we’re renting will arrive. Then this weekend, John will be filming my “Mini-Interviews,” during which I plan to answer some of the questions I’m most commonly asked by my readers. When my website is updated (soon, I hope) I’ll get those interviews up to share. John’s been after me for…
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