Louisa Edwards's Blog, page 27

Mea Culpa

I'm finally emerging from the Deadline Cave, blinking and squinting my way back into the light, and while there is much rejoicing, there is also SHAME. Because in addition to the many and myriad things that haven't happened around my house in a while (laundry, cooking beyond thawing frozen pizza, walking the dogs, sweeping, etc) I also never managed to send out the copies of RED KISS by Deidre Knight that I ran a contest for lo these many moons ago.

But I'm about to fix that! So please, if you or

Pacific Coast Highway

For a long time, I'd hear people talking about the "PCH" and just nod, smiling, having no clue what they were referencing. And now I finally know! The Pacific Coast Highway is a stretch of road that winds down the hairpin curves of our country's western border, which it shares with, yes, the Pacific Ocean. This means the views, or at least the views to one side of the road, are spectacular along this rocky, cliffy highway.

Stinger got it into his head that we should make this drive. He had it all

California Dreaming

We've been back for a week but if feels like a year. I miss California! The sun, the laid-back, permanent vacation vibe, and of course, the FOOD. I proved what a weak sauce food blogger I am by refusing to bring my camera into the French Laundry, but here are some other pics of our trip. This is the view from our sun deck off the hotel room in Napa Valley. I can now highly recommend the Auberge du Soleil to anyone looking for an extremely luxurious, pampering Napa getaway. At one point, I serious

Consider This Counter-Programming to all the MJ Stuff

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is almost my favorite of the entire series. The movie comes out July 15th, and boy does it look like they're not skimping on the dark stuff! Which works for me, because it's all a ramp up to the big final showdown in Deathly Hallows, but I hope they don't short shrift the romantic stuff in HBP. My favorite thing so far, though, is this poster of Alan Rickman as Severus Snape.



A thread on the Romance Divas forum yesterday asked about people's favorite movie v

Home is Where the Hot Is

If the title of this post made you think it was going to be sexy, I'm very sorry to disappoint you. Our a/c is broken. It is currently far too hot in my house for holding hands, much less anything more athletic.

Still, even with the temperature issues, it's good to be home! We had a great time in San Francisco/Napa Valley/Big Sur/Santa Ynez. Yes, the trip was as long as it sounds. I did get a bunch of writing done, though! Traveling can be good for that, I guess because it's so stimulating. I als

Dakota Cassidy Rocks

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Dakota Cassidy is chatting online with TKA next Thursday, June 25th @ 9pm ET about her new release, KISS & HELL . This fab novel is the first in a new series. Dakota is well-known for her hilarious ACCIDENTAL books. The third novel in the series, THE ACCIDENTAL HUMAN , premiered in March. We have a lot of fab giveaways planned for the chat, and Dakota is personally giving away a $25.00 Amazon gift certificate! Here are the deets on K

I Heart Hubert Keller

Anyone who's obsessed with Top Chef knows exactly who Hubert Keller is: the dignified, no-nonsense chef/owner of Fleur de Lys in San Francisco, and the first guest judge ever to appear on the show. He memorably tossed the most aggravating contestant out of his kitchen for dipping his finger into a sauce rather than tasting with a spoon. Keller (or, Hubert, as I always think of him) has that peculiarly French attractiveness--it's not his somewhat angular features or his silvery gray mane of hair,

Lynchburg Farmers Market

In the immortal words of John Cusack's character in Grosse Pointe Blank, "You can never go home again. But I guess you can shop there." My little Virginia hometown looked and felt surreally different when I visited last weekend. A little more cosmopolitan than it used to be, a little more traffic. Some things were the same, though, among them the weekly farmers market downtown. Same beautiful bounty of produce, same friendly vendors willing and eager to offer a taste of their wares, same funny l

Top Chef Masters

Are you setting your Tivo? I know I am!



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Haircut Results!

I'm pretty pleased with the new 'do! I have managed to style it on my own a couple of times, which equals big win, and it's way cooler (in the sense of temperature) than my previous length, which was long enough to be on my neck but too short to throw back into a ponytail. So I'm happy! And Stinger is happy, too; he loves short hair on me. I'm not sure why I keep going through these cycles of growing it out again. Maybe just to torture him.

Anyway, here's the pic. Please ignore the insanely mess