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I'm Guest Blogging/Interviewed Today!

I've done an interview with Carolyn Rosewood on her Moonlight and Roses blog today, where I talk about the inspiration for Ask Me if I'm Happy, a couple of scenes I enjoyed writing, and whether or not we'll see Emily and Davide in another book sometime in the future. Won't you come on down and leave a little comment love?

Thanks! I'll see you there!

13 Random Thoughts

Where does the time go? As usual, I've been caught unprepared - so here's a totally random collection for you all:
13 Random Thoughts
1) How do I keep forgetting the Thursday Thirteen? What's up with that? Or more to the point, why do I think about it and then forget it? Hmmm...
2) I've got to find a way to use this in the story. Ouch!
3) I've got to find a way to WORK on the story. ACK!
Blurry or not, this photo kills me. NOM! *happy sigh*4) ACK! Team "Leopard" presentation is tonight...

I'm doing a guest blog on Book After Book!

I'm there talking about Ask Me if I'm Happy, of course. So why not come on by and leave a little love for me in the form of a comment on the site? ;)

Book After Book Guest Blog by Kimberly Menozzi!

Raising the Stakes

I feel like I'm slowly getting back on track after a very unproductive holiday-filled six weeks. It's been difficult -- much harder than I'd have anticipated, actually.

However, I'm determined to get back into the proper headspace for 27 Stages, and I made a little headway last night, thanks in part to a documentary Alle and I watched about Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi. Yesterday was the fifty-first anniversary of Coppi's death from malaria at the age of forty-one, and since Coppi was one of...

Farewell, 2010

What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That's not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that's the burden of a year.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

(thanks to Adelle Laudan who shared this via her...

13 Photos from 2010

No time for a proper "Thirteen" this week. So, here's a selection of images from the past year (some are repeats) for your perusal as a year-end send-off! See you next year!
1) January - Andrew, Mia and Paolo at the window. 2) February - Piazza Garibaldi, Parma, Italy. 3) April - Samuele Bersani in concert, Parma, Italy. 4) May - Alle and Mia. 5) June - Me and Samuele Bersani in Fontanellato, Italy. 6) June - My first public reading at Lingua Point Language School, Reggio Emilia, Italy. 7) July ...

I'm not blocked, I'm just stuck in the slow lane.

Well, here we are, on the verge of a New Year, releasing the old and making way for the new, and so on and on.

I find myself staring down my current WiP, 27 Stages and trying to get the next chapter to unfold. Or, rather, I'm trying to get the current chapter to wind up so I can move on to the next chapter. This is the sort of thing writers deal with on occasion, I suppose: stubborn words, stubborn images, etc.

You see, it's not that I don't have more to write for this story. The problem...

13 Things I'm Looking Forward to in 2011

A little pressed for time, but for mostly good reasons this week. No time to give details, but I'm here to present
13 Things I'm
Looking Forward To in 2011
1) Right off the bat - in January - I'll be doing my first guest blog for Silvia Mazzobel's Book After Book blog. I'll continue doing guest blogs there for the rest of the year, too! I'm so excited!
2) Since Silvia is featuring Ask Me if I'm Happy in the "Books in Italy" Reading Challenge, I'll be giving away copies to two lucky winners! I'm...

13 Bits of Trivia from Ask Me if I'm Happy!

I've decided to do something a little different this week. If you are a member of Goodreads, it might be worth keeping a copy of this Thursday Thirteen around, as I'm prepping a quiz for that site, based on Ask Me if I'm Happy! (Which, by the way, would make an excellent gift for Christmas, either as a paperback or Kindle e-book...)

So when you've read the book, you can have fun answering these questions - and more! - or you can have a go without having read it yet. I promise, there are no...

13 Reasons to Buy Ask Me if I'm Happy

Time for the tried and true. Since I'm dealing with allergies, straightening up the house for my private English lesson this evening, preparing to go to the doctor and trying to get some laundry done - I'm pretty well squeezed for time today.

So I'll have to do a "promotional" Thirteen today.

With your kind indulgence, I present:
13 Reasons to Buy
Ask Me if I'm Happy
1) Because you love Italy, or are curious about the place.
2) Because you are in the mood for a love story.
3) Because so few books...