My eyes are puffy this morning because I cried so hard and so long while watching The Duchess at the movies last night. I mean, I cried and cried. But good crying. Cathartic crying. The kind that comes from experiencing something real. I want to feel something when I see a movie or read a […]
Keris, at the fun and feisty British site Trashionista, has posted an interview with me. Visit the site to learn who my favorite chick-lit heroine is, find out what I’m reading now, hear my theme song, and read shameful secrets about my housewifery habits.
I always find myself flipping back the the author photos on the jackets of books I’m reading, just curious about the authors and trying to get to know them a little by studying their faces. And if I’m reading a second book by an author I’ve read before, I’m always bummed when they re-use the […]
I’m all excited about the essay I have coming out in April in the anthology Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond. The book is edited by Andrea N. Richesin, who also did The May Queen, and it features Karen Joy Fowler, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Joyce Maynard, and one of my very favorite writers, […]
Bookfinds just gave The Bright Side of Disaster a fantastic review! Here’s an excerpt: “Often, I find myself leaving books half-finished, growing weary with stilted prose or predictable plots. But there are those rare moments when I find a book that really speaks to me. A book that makes me fall in love with both […]
I’ll be speaking at the Mom 2.0 Summit in Houston this coming February. The Kirtsy Chicks and OpMom are organizing, so you know it’s going to rock. Here’s how they describe the summit: What do you get when you mix top brands, mom bloggers, social media experts, marketing leaders, media leaders, tech moms and mompreneurs […]
Last summer, reader and blogger Natasha Maw did an interview with me on her Maw Books Blog. One of her questions was about a tomato-lime soup that I’d written about in The Bright Side of Disaster. She thought the soup sounded good, and wondered if I had the recipe. Of course, many of things in […]
I will speak as a featured author at the Fort Bend County Book and Author Dinner on February 15, 2009. The dinner is just two days before Everyone Is Beautiful goes on sale, but it’s against the rules to sell books before their on-sale date. But you CAN pre-order Everyone Is Beautiful, and it’ll arrive at […]
Varsity pictures just optioned the movie rights to The Bright Side of Disaster!
Karen Walrond is running an interview with me today on her fabulous, gorgeous, thoughtful blog, Chookooloonks. I could explain how we met, and became buddies, and happened to be working on eerily similar projects about women and beauty, but she does it so perfectly, I won’t even try. She’s also running a giveaway for an […]