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It couldn't happen to me

I have added to this piece and am reposting it during holiday week because domestic abuse rises at this time of year.  We dream of the season of love, giving, and good cheer.  Hopes run high, but so do tensions, and I know from experience how they can explode and crush a loving soul.If that [...]

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Live on the Colin McEnroe Show

Monday December 27, 2010, 1pm The Colin McEnroe Shoe, WNPR, 90.5 in Connecticut or streaming live on the web. I'll be live on my good friend Colin's show, discussing book blurbs.  I call them quotes, but it's his show, and he calls them blurbs, so I'll go with that for now.  Basically writers endorsing each [...]

ALA Midwinter Meeting

January 10, 2011 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MIDWINTER MEETING San Diego Convention Center 111 W Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 12-1 pm Signing advance copies of The Silver Boat at the Penguin booth. Penguin is Booth # 1917. 2-4 pm  Author Tea and book signing, Room 29 A-D The other authors on the panel will be: [...]

Music of the Spheres

I am hearing the Music of the Spheres this week before Christmas.  On Tuesday there was a full moon, full lunar eclipse, and Winter Solstice, all at once.  How could such events, especially during the holidays, fail to turn each of us into a mystic? Musica universalis–Pythagoras said "There is geometry in the humming of [...]

Publishing Blog Features Luanne's Latest Video

We're happy to announce that this morning Publishing Insider, a blog written by Harper Collins Publishing's Carl Lennertz, linked to Luanne's latest video, How To Write A Novel. We're very excited and want to thank Carl. You can find the link here: www.publishinginsider.net

How To Write A Novel

Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author of the forthcoming The Silver Boat, gives away all her secrets in less than two minutes.

Ten Ways It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas

Ten ways it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: 1) The tree sellers are back in Chelsea.  They were my inspiration for Silver Bells, a Holiday Tale.  From the first page: "Everyone knew the best Christmas trees came from the north, where the stars hung low in the sky. It was said that starlight [...]

A Winter's Note

December roars in with a gale, and here we are. Winter officially starts on the solstice, but the beginning and end of seasons have personal and emotional aspects as well. Just as summer ends for me the first week of September, winter commences the first of December. I love winter. It's partly the drawing in, [...]

Look up

There is so much to love and find beautiful right now, while memories tug into the past, thoughts of Christmases gone by.  I find this time of year bittersweet. I think of my mother, father, and Mim, old friends, a sister who's said goodbye.  I remember the house we grew up in, on Lincoln Street [...]