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Happy Tuesday!

Hello, darlings. Apologies for so completely neglecting you these last few days. I had a jam-packed weekend without a moment to breathe (or write). I hope yours was as fun as mine was! Mine was chock full of entertaining at home by the fire, several outings (I hiked in like 3 different places), the movies, […]

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A favorite quote

Sometimes old lines from my favorite movies start running through my head and won’t stop (you can imagine how much fun it is to be me). This is from Legends of the Fall, one of the movies that best encapsulates my thoughts on love: it’s impossible and will only lead to disaster but we can’t […]

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Signed first edition

Here’s something kind of hilarious I found by accident. There’s someone on Ebay selling “a signed first edition” of THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY, complete with a picture of the page with my signature on it. What? Why? I have signed hundreds of copies of the book by now. Whenever someone asks an authorto just […]

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My new name

I love my daughter madly, but as she firmly settles into her adolescence, she has begun to ask for things. A lot of things. Not only stuff but a variety of things, most of which need to be provided with the haste of an emergency response team. “Can you drive me to the mall?” “Can […]

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Is reading dead?

One of my bookish friends posted this graphic on Facebook yesterday. It points to something we all know: most people aren’t reading books. For my book-loving crowd, this is cause for hand-wringing and lament, a call to change things. But is it? I love books. Absolutely and madly. Just the sight of them makes me […]

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Pre-order your paperback

Sugarplums, happy Friday! I’m so excited!! It’s the Friday before Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer, and I have such a fun weekend planned. I hope you do too. But most of all I’m excited because I just found out that the release of the paperback version of THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY has […]

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Paperback cover reveal

Today I am so excited that the cover for the paperback edition of THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY is being released out in the world at the wonderful YA Books Central. They’ve got a little write-up, a giveaway, plus… THE COVER! I am madly in love. I wasn’t expecting that it would be completely different […]

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Things not to do in the kitchen

I am a dismal cook (like, really bad. Like… remedial cooking classes would be too advanced for me). So, about once a year, I involve myself in collecting something that lulls me into thinking I’m not such a bad cook. At the moment it’s wooden spoons and spatulas. Last year it was chef’s knives. I’ve […]

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Advice

I am an advice-giver. I think seriously about all the issues that matter to me. Not only do I think, but I research. A lot. The day Google designs a chip to implant directly in your brain so that you can search for things with your mind, I am signing up as a guinea pig […]

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More iris garden

It’s iris season! I want to post a gazillion pictures but I’ll spare you and post just a few (below). They’re so pretty and they’re popping up everywhere! I am adding a newbatchonce it’s planting season again in August (but, in my defense, I’m really good about dividing the old ones and paying them forward). […]

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