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Your time to shine

Lit Up at the Library Roy Blount, Jr. is one of the country’s most distinguished men of letters. Add –ist to almost any form of writing, and he’s been there,

February 15, 2008

Writing in the Garden of the Gods

*** CALENDAR ALERT ***SAVE THE DATE WRITING IN THE GARDEN OF THE GODS Field’s End Writers’ Conference 2008 WHO: This year’s line-up of authors and speakers includes: Roy Blount, Jr.

January 18, 2008

Hooray!

Oh, fun! The Winter Lodge is up for a Reviewers Choice Award from RT Book Reviews. It’s up against some of the best books of 2007. I am in good company–every

December 31, 2007

A few of my favorites in 2007

I love poring over the year-end “best of” lists, particularly the book lists. I’ve been lucky enough to see my own books on a list or two. Here’s my own

December 26, 2007

Madeleine L'Engle stood the test of TIME.

A moment of silence, please. Madeleine L’Engle has died at the age of 88. A WRINKLE IN TIME was one of those books I read as a child and thought,

September 8, 2007

A star is born.

I have the best little writers’ group on the island and we’re celebrating the debut novel of one of our members. Suzanne Selfors is having a gala launch for her novel,

September 4, 2007

Pop Quiz

A lot of you knew what yesterday’s list of phrases had in common–though not necessarily coined by Shakespeare, all of those phrases can be found in the Bard’s work. Take

August 27, 2007

Where the bee sucks, there suck I.

Pop Quiz: What do these phrases have in common? Post your speculation here and I’ll post the answer tomorrow. A dish fit for the gods A foregone conclusion A sorry

August 25, 2007

When life gives you lemons…

…Make LEMONADE CAKE.* I put two recipes on my web site this summer, along with the promo for my August book, Dockside: The small Catskills town of Avalon, New York, on

July 29, 2007

Free books for the beach

Today’s the day! The wonderful folks at Bookreporter.com are giving away another crop of brand new, hot-off-the-presses books, and Dockside is one of them. You can’t beat that! Some of

July 27, 2007

My kind of people

Book people. You know the type. They read. They remember, they have their favorites, they have a gift for matching up books and readers. They can tell you where they

July 20, 2007

"She was my first read…"

Ask almost any avid romance reader which book got her hooked on the genre, and she’ll likely name a title by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. For me, it was Shanna, which held

July 9, 2007

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