Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 36

Open At Your Own Risk

Maisy has a stuffy she is particularly fond of these days, a floppy-legged dog named Susie. Maisy Miss Jane is, quite frankly, mostly PAST stuffies these days. We are seven. We are much too sophisticated and worldy for stuffies, insert...

With All My Usual Aplomb

I email back and forth all day with a few of my writer friends. We whine in the morning, then shut down the internets and go to work. Quite often we do "virtue checks" in the afternoon to see what...

As Seen on Television: Third and Final Part

I am about to say an inflammatory thing, and many of you, my best beloveds, are going to make Tyra Banks Audience noises at me and say, OH NO SHE DID NOT GO THERE. But I am going there. Here...

As Seen On Television (part 2)

I got a note from fellow Grand Central author Tiffany Baker: "I saw The Girl Who Stopped Swimming in my local B & N yesterday. The good news: It was prominently displayed on a table right by the cash registers....

As Seen on Television (part one)

I keep seeing things on television that I want to blog about, and this can only mean I am in copy edits. Because after four hours of sand-scrubbing my way word by word through my MS, making POSITIVE it says...

Just Call Me Mrs. Calvin's Dad

Do you remember that cartoon strip, Calvin and Hobbes? It is one of my favorites. Well it used to be one of my favorites. Right up until I realized I was married to the dad. Remember how he would deal...

Decatur Book Festival! UPDATED to include Post Fest Pic and Yapping

This weekend. YAY. This is where you can find me, or, for you click-through-hating rebels, I will be at the First Baptist Decatur Chapel Stage at 11:15 o Saturday. You be there, too. I am headed to the airport RIGHT...

Decatur Book Festival!

This weekend. YAY. This is where you can find me, or, for you click-through-hating rebels, I will be at the First Baptist Decatur Chapel Stage at 11:15 o Saturday. You be there, too. I am headed to the airport RIGHT...

Better U: Afters

This weekend is one of my favorite weekends of the year: Decatur Book Fest. I am HUGELY looking forward to it, and trying to get my talk to come together and gel in my head, and excited about seeing people...

Better (Stick A Fork in) U

Because I am done. I fly back to Dallas this evening, and I will spend all day tomorrow eating fruit and clambering about on the torturous treadmills of the Cooper Institute for Being Super Healthy. The American Heart Association wants...