The Quivering Pen is hosting a Friday Freebies giveaway. Woo-woo! Books for free! Swing on over and enter for a chance to win a copy of Dolls Behaving Badly, by yours truly, or A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash. I can’t wait to read this one and hopefully I’ll be able to nab Cash into a guest… Read More The Quivering Pen Giveaway and Seward City News
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Deb Vanasse over at 49 Writers, and she asked the clever types of questions that made me think, really think, before answering. I love when an interview opens something up inside of me and suddenly, for a few brief seconds, I see a little more of myself than I normally allow.… Read More 49 Writers Interview, and Deb’s giveaway
Do you love Barbie dolls? I mean, do you really love them? Or maybe you want to tear off that smug, smiling, perfect face? Check out my guest post at Chick Lit Central and learn more about one woman’s (um, that would be me) love/hate relationship with all things Barbie. Best of all, there’s a giveaway. A free… Read More Chick Lit Central Post and Giveaway
It’s up! And it’s pink. And bubbly. My interview posted on eBook Addict today and I couldn’t be happier. (Thanks, Josie, you did an awesome job and asked some great questions!) I couldn’t resist sharing this photo of the birch trees out behind the house. I love the birches in the winter, when the light… Read More eBook Addict interview, and birch trees
Yesterday I had the pleasure of answering Jo-Ann Mapson’s interview questions. Mapson is author of, among others: Finding Casey, Solomon’s Oak, Goodbye Earl, Hank & Choloe and, my favorite, Blue Rodeo. She’s also one of my former graduate school instructors and, if not for her support and encouragement, I would have never written Dolls Behaving Badly.… Read More Jo-Ann Mapson interviewed me (and it was fun)
Marathon running to finish a novel? Yep. At least, according to the article I wrote for the Writer’s Digest blog. Check it out when you have a moment. You don’t have to be a runner, either. With all the book promotion I’ve been doing, I’m not feeling very much like a runner myself. But no matter. For I… Read More Writer’s Digest post and I’m a “real” author
In two more days, Dolls Behaving Badly releases to the world. I’m scared, and excited, to the point of tears. I hope everyone loves my characters as much as I do. I hope they love my book. I hope they read it in the bathtub and while they’re eating. I want my book to be used, and… Read More Two more days
I’m on a roll. I swear, it’s almost scary. Today I received a message that MARY accepted my creative nonfiction piece “Eating”‘ for their next issue. Thanks so much, MARY. Can’t wait to see the issue. Then this happened: The good-looking Fed Ex man brought four boxes of the final copies of Dolls Behaving Badly.… Read More My books!, and another acceptance
Today I was lucky enough to nab an interview with New Jersey writer Peter DeMarco, author of Background Noise, published by Pangea Books and available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. DeMarco and I are neighbors, of a sort; we’re both featured in a recent issue of the Boiler Journal . We’ve also both been published in The New York Times and nominated for a Pushcart… Read More Welcome, Peter DeMarco
Friday night I returned home from running 15 miles at the gym to find an envelope on the table. An envelope addressed to my name in my own hand. Anyone who submits to literary magazines knows what that means: A rejection letter. A rejection letter sent so long after you submitted that you don’t even remember what… Read More Evening Street Review
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