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Blue French Shoes

Bonjour! I know this may sound a bit excessive but I have FOUR pairs of blue shoes from Paris! I'm not sure how this happened, other than that I love blue and I love shoes! Here is one of the pairs and I'll take more pics of the others to share soon. Vive les chaussures!

Cooking is not my forte…

When it comes to the kitchen, I am good at cooking anything that has a button for it on the microwave.

How to write a novel, or seven, for that matter

A number of readers have asked me for some productivity tips and insight into how I manage my writing and working time. As most of my blog readers know, I have a husband, two kids, and a thriving new media business in addition to my burgeoning career as a YA novelist. And, of course, I also have a thoroughly adorable dog I spend time with!

Can you spot the dog?

I'm not afraid to say it – I am a very busy woman! I also travel to conferences, host podcasts, volunteer at my son's school and...

I've now written seven novels

I finished the first draft of Mockingbirds2 this week and as I was finishing it hit me – I have written seven novels. You may be wondering why you haven't seen any on shelves! Well, "The Mockingbirds" will be my first published novel when it releases in November. The second Mockingbirds book, clearly, will come out after the first one. I wrote two novels in between the Mockingbirds sale to Little Brown and my work on Mock2, so those are books I hope to sell soon! And I wrote three novels...

Sinfully Good – Get to know Wendy Toliver, author of LIFTED

As part of the Girlfriend's Cyber Circuit, I am pleased to host Wendy Toliver today. Her novel "Lifted" released this week and has received strong reviews from VOYA, Booklist and others! Here's a description of the story.

Being Bad Never Felt So Good.

Poppy Browne had never stolen anything in her life before moving to Pleasant Acres, Texas and meeting Mary Jane and Whitney. But when Poppy walks out of the mall with her two new friends and her first pair of stolen jeans, she's hooked. Before l...

Typewriter Message – Seize the Day, Every Day

Sometimes life serves up reminders of exactly what you need to hear at precisely the right moment. Like when I walked past this classic typewriter at Shakespeare & Company last week…

Words to live by…Do you follow them?

A Block in Paris…

This is one of the things I enjoyed about my visit to Paris last week. You see these shops

of completely different styles right next to each other on the same block…

Modern wine shop

Hip restaurant

And they look perfect together…

The whole block

The Mockingbirds at BEA

Some of my blogger friends sent me pictures of "The Mockingbirds" at the recent Book Expo America convention and conference in New York in late May. Here they are!

Mockingbirds reading guide before...

Mockingbirds reading guide after....

And now…the ARCs themselves! Sort of like an army of Mockingbirds!

An army of Mockingbirds

Thanks to my friends Vania and BriMeetsBooks.

More from Paris…

I've been shopping...

Yes I fit this all in an EXTRA suitcase!

I will miss this...

I will miss this too...the window displays are works of art

Paris is Beautiful…

Cafe Roussilon at Rue Cler

All doors should be this pretty

Yum

Loved this entryway

Seen this before?

Night signs