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Recently awesome

Yesterday I got tagged in the coolest tweet. Here it is below (PS – Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University is in Minnesota. That’s pretty awesome too): Recently Awesome: The Secret Side of Empty by Maria E. Andreu http://t.co/7eKcrX5kzG http://t.co/VmSrOpciv0 — CSB/SJU Libraries (@csbsjulibraries) September 8, 2014

The persistence of memory

There is a Stephen King quote which begins, “Writers remember everything.” (It’s a beautiful passage. I’ll quote it in full below). It’s certainly true for me. The realization fills me with a certain joy and peace…. oh, so that’s what that is for.Finally I see the value of remembering the story behind every scar. When […]

K-9 unit searches my house

Tonight I went to a glittering publishing-industry party at which I met several writing legends and assorted writing field cool kids (post on that to follow). But guess what! That was not the most exciting thing to happen in my life tonight. The room-to-room search of my home for a fugitive by a drug-sniffing dog […]

Wish me luck!

Tomorrow night I am going to my first big writing industry cocktail party in New York City. I am so excited! My agency is celebrating an anniversary and is having a shindig in a very posh spot. Being a bit of an introvert at parties (I know, no one believes that but it’s true) I […]

See you in Southern California!

Just when things will be starting to turngray and cold in my lovely New Jersey I will be hightailing it out of here for the warm climes of Southern California. I am doing an insane number of appearances with several wonderful author friends over one crazy long weekend. I would love to meet you there […]

Home sweet home

My little New Jersey town is inordinately proud of itself for a teeny thing of less than 9,000 people (teeny for a New York City suburb, anyway). And rightfully so: dubbed “the Athens of New Jersey,” it was originally home to about 1,000 members of theAshkineshacky tribeand settled in 1668 by the Dutch and English. […]

It’s my freshman year

It’s 1984. The biggest thing I’m afraid of is nuclear winter ever since my 8th grade teacher made me do a report on the terrifying TV movie The Day After. That… and walking into the building full of strangers that will be my high school. I haven’t slept all night for fear of it. Exactly […]

Because Writers Are Weird

Let’s face it. Especially that sunlight thing.

Apologies for the down time

Depending on where you are in the country you may have seen a “website not available” error if you tried to access my site earlier today. Apologies! I wasn’t able to get on the site to update it from approximately 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and certain parts of the U.S. couldn’t see it either. […]

Labor Day Blues

There’s something so final about Labor Day, with it’s old memories of going back to school and ending the long, free days of summer. In true old(er) lady fashion, I am noticing that this summer sped by even faster than usual. I have a kid starting high school this week (what?!? I myself started high […]