Would you like to win a date with a ZILLIONAIRE???

If yes, what are you waiting for? Here’s your chance–Win a Date with a Zillionaire!: Who better than a wealthy, handsome, debonair venture capitalist (he’s financed AOL, Amazon, Google and other major companies) to wine and dine three lucky RT BOOKclub readers who adore romance? You met Tom Perkins, Danielle Steel’s ex-husband, in the February issue of RT BOOKclub magazine in an entertaining interview … Read More Would you like to win a date with a ZILLIONAIRE???

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Today, for your reading pleasure, I offer you: SAND, SUN, GUN by Brangien Davis. & Penny, by Susan Henderson. & check out the new spork, featuring such kick-ass writers as: Pia Ehrhardt, Elizabeth Ellen, Kim Chinquee, and Jeffrey Yamaguchi.

"Nobody whispers it in your ear"

Annie Dillard is back for another day of The Writing Life: Nobody whispers it in your ear. It is like something you memorized once and forgot. Now it comes back and rips away your breath. You find and finger a phrase at a time; you lay it down cautiously, as if with tongs, and wait suspended until the next one finds you: Ah yes, … Read More "Nobody whispers it in your ear"

"We still and always want waking"

Sorry I am being so boring lately (or maybe I am always boring and you’re just being kind by popping in to visit). Am working on a project and trying to meet self-imposed goals. Right now I have to finish another 500 words before I can have a pre-dinner glass of wine. So here is more from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life: Why are … Read More "We still and always want waking"

Mark Pritchard is not only a great writer and a cool guy, but he’s also extremely generous. If you’ve not been following his What Are You Working on series–then do it now. Why not start with today’s entry–the always interesting Susan Henderson.

"It is handed to you, but only if you look for it."

Am reading again Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life because I must. Today I will share with you this quote: At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then–and only then–it is handed to you. From the … Read More "It is handed to you, but only if you look for it."

are you in her novel?

Are you harboring secret fears that Ellen Meister has written you into her debut novel SECRET CONFESSIONS OF THE APPLEWOOD PTA? If yes, then you better head right on over to her blog and take this QUIZ (and while you’re there you will be treated to an excerpt of her forthcoming novel).

It is February, but not, and we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop. Allen and I made bets: I said we would have one only more big storm (of 12 inches) this winter and he said we would have two of eight inches each. But today it is once again in the 40s. The snow melts, the brooks rise. We passed … Read More

As you know, I am a Frey’d knot at this point but Kenneth Harvey sent me a link to his funny piece The facts. Don’t give me the facts and it made me smile so I am sharing: AFTER READING JOHN BANVILLE’S Man Booker prize-winning The Sea, a slim volume trumpeted as fiction, I was startled to discover, upon perusing my hefty atlas, that … Read More

Hug Me. Kiss Me. I’m Yours. Be Mine.

Please save me from myself. I made the mistake yesterday of buying a bag of Sweet Tart hearts–something I do around every Valentine’s Day. When I buy the bag, I have no intention of sharing it. It’s all for greedy, greedy me. This bag is no exception. I opened it around 3PM yesterday and have not stopped grabbing handfuls since. Now there are just … Read More Hug Me. Kiss Me. I’m Yours. Be Mine.

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Which news item are you more sick of? 1) Brangelina OR 2) Frey-gate

Three Cheers for Three Days!

Let’s hear it for Robin Slick whose novel Three Days in New York was chosen #11 Mainstream Novel in the P&E Readers Poll. Congratulations, Robin!!!