Tag: Writing
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Bookmark Now
My name’s jacked on this older version of the cover, but I’m also a contributor to this upcoming anthology:
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Two Stories
The honeymoon: sun, sleep, sunsets, staph, snorkeling, sushi, sexy-sexy. There you go. But two things that might actually interest you: We spent part of the honeymoon on a rather remote part of an island. There was only one tiny market that we’d drive to for food and beer. We walked in one time alongside a…
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Sometimes I try to shield
Sometimes I try to shield the truth from you because I don’t want you to find out that sometimes all this hard work can be even more terrifying than sticking with The Plan. If you knew that having a book comes with it a slew of unanswerable questions about your future, friendships and talent, would…
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Three Questions
A few months ago I was asked to write a piece for Fresh Yarn. It was the first thing I ever brought to our writing group (which I hope stee starts up again soon). I’ve been a fan of this site from the beginning and have been anxiously waiting for my piece to go online.…
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More Books For Your Wishlist
Look at all the books! I’m so proud. John Scalzi‘s book, Old Man’s War, comes out in January. Miranda‘s book The Effects of Light, is out in February. Wendy’s book, I’m Not the New Me, debuts in April. And Erin’s book, Tales From the Scale, is out in May. Can’t wait? Read Gwen’s book, To…
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Woo hoo! The cover was
Woo hoo! The cover was just sent to my house this past week. I really like it, and can’t wait for Amazon to post it. As the title suggests, this is an anthology of five short stories about women deciding whether or not they want to get married. I’m proud of stee for not worrying,…
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work in progress
I’m trying to work on a novella to meet my deadline (More info when available, but the anthology should be hitting bookshelves this June!) and decided listening to the new Bjork album for the first time would get me in the right mood to type up edits and rework certain paragraphs. Track Three has me…
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Jennifer Weiner says of Why Girls Are Weird:
“Chick lit at its most trenchant and truthful.” (read the rest of her interview here.) Thanks, Jennifer! I am a huge fan of her blog. Also, she was very nice and pretty when we went to see her read over the summer. She’s a TWoP fan, and you’d think we were the ones with the…
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distractions
The house is so smart. See, over the past week I’ve finally had some time (read: due to the fact that I’m supposed to be finishing this manuscript, and it’s much easier to say, “I really need to hang that picture.”) to get the house pulled together a bit. The screen door, which fell off…