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December 7, 2012
The Friday Five (and number two is REALLY good!)
1. I’m here in New York, after the LONGEST day ever yesterday, watching GMA in my hotel room. My feet hurt, I need to pack up, and tomorrow at home I’ve got Disney On Ice with my kid, which I have a FEELING will be very intense for both of us. So this Five is going to be quick one, if only because I signed a BUNCH of galleys yesterday as well, so my hands are as sore as my feet. Whew!
2. Okay, but the BIG thing yesterday was this super secret thing I couldn’t tweet, blog or even really talk ab...
November 30, 2012
The Friday Five!
1. Look what the UPS guy brought me yesterday!
It’s an Advance Reader’s Copy of THE MOON AND MORE, also known as a galley and a BOM. But to me, it just means that all this hard work and agonizing and title and cover drama is finally…a book. That I can hold in my hand! And read—if I wasn’t so totally sick of it by this point that doing that is the LAST thing I feel like doing. I got two copies, one for my husband and parents to read, one to keep for myself, and my daughter immediately threw a f...
November 16, 2012
The Friday Five!
1. Well, first, there is this:
In the end, my husband just couldn’t help himself. He knew right before the holidays was a bad time to get a puppy. That we already had a House of Chaos, and this would just make it more crazy. And that puppies are a lot of work, even if you DON’T have a high maintenance five year old. But none of this mattered. When you know, you know. And he knew he wanted this dog. We named him Goose, and he’s barked all night long in his crate for the three nights we’ve had h...
November 9, 2012
The Friday Five!
1. Whew. That’s all I can say about this week. Between the election and my cover reveal it’s been BIG BIG stuff for days, and I’ve been stuffing my face with cookies to deal with all the excitement/stress. I have this recipe I make whenever someone I know is having a hard time: I call them my Everything Is Going to Be All Right Cookies. Basically, it’s the normal chocolate chip cookie recipe you find on the back of the Nestle chips, but you add a cup of dry oatmeal and a half a cup of Grape N...
November 8, 2012
Big news!
Okay, so I am SO excited to finally be able to share a link to the cover from my new book, THE MOON AND MORE, plus an excerpt from the first chapter. It’s so thrilling and sort of terrifying to put something out there that I’ve been working on for two-plus years. So without further ado (although I do like the ado): HERE IT IS.
I would like to savor this more but my kid needs to look at pictures of fairies on the internet. Back to reality!
Have a great day, everyone!
November 2, 2012
The Friday Five!
1. Man, what a week. We were lucky down here in middle of NC to only get some rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy, although our mountains got hit with snow and our beaches damaged from the water. I’ve watched the coverage of New York and New Jersey and just feel SO helpless that I can’t somehow send some of our power, our generator, our normalcy up there. I know from hurricanes and ice storms we’ve been through how tough it is to keep your spirits up, especially after those adrenalized first f...
October 26, 2012
The Friday Five!
1. My week began with my whole Julianne Moore story (which I have told to everyone who will listen, but if you missed it, just go back an entry) and then it’s just been crazy from there. I keep waiting for things to calm down. But I am realizing that this one mom at my kid’s preschool was right when she said to me, very kindly, “Yeah, that’s not going to happen.” Leave it to a mom to shoot it straight. Was my life this chaotic before I was trying to juggle career, home stuff and parenthood? T...
October 22, 2012
Because it was just so freaking awesome, that’s why
Okay, I HAVE to share this story. Because I still can’t believe it actually happened.
Regular readers of this blog know that I spoke at BEA a few years back, and Julianne Moore was the emcee. It was, honestly, one of the best days of my life. I was terrified to get up in front of so many industry people, and terrified in general, but I did it and it was freaking awesome. As was Julianne Moore, who was just as nice and down to earth as she could be, both there and when I saw her a couple of mon...
October 19, 2012
The Friday Five!
1. Finally, it’s Friday. But seriously, between my kid catching yet ANOTHER bug at preschool and getting super sick, followed by a 24-hour trip to MD to do some school visits for my cousins, Wednesday felt like the end of the workweek to me. Which makes today…Sunday? Oh, who even knows. Friday for real, God only knows what in my brain. But I am here and that is what counts. Or that’s what I’m telling myself.
2. I haven’t done school visits in YEARS, other than quick ones here in Chapel Hill. B...
October 12, 2012
The Friday Five!
1. It’s been a hard week around here. Yesterday, we had to say goodbye to our sweet dog Monkey. We got him in February of 2002, just as I was starting to promote This Lullaby. My husband had done a job for some folks with a dog named Monkey, and we loved it so much I put it in a book AND my own house. He was pretty much the cutest boxer puppy ever:
What can I tell you about such a good boy? He was smart and loving. He could jump higher vertically than any dog I have ever seen. He was way too b...
