If you’re from my area and don’t have any plans for the weekend, come join us at the Baltimore Book Festival that’s going on today, Saturday and Sunday!
There’s lots of cool things planned. And–yay!–Tim Gunn is going to be there. I wonder if I can get him to say, “Work it out,” to me a […]

Yeah, I know. Shop Talk Wednesday doesn’t sound as cool as Shop Talk Tuesday, but yesterday was a total bear.
So today, we have a fellow Class of 2k7 member Eric Luper joining us in the shop! Eric is the author of Big Slick, a young adult novel that Richie Partington of Richie’s Picks […]

My list of things to do today:
1. Edit.
2. Edit some more.
3. Re-edit the stuff I already edited.
4. Get back to editing.
Oh, and for those of you in my area, I’m going to be at the Guthrie Memorial Library this Thursday, September 27, from […]

Congratulations and a mighty Woo-HOO to fellow Class of 2k7 member Eric Luper, for the recent release of his young adult novel, BIG SLICK!!

Big Slick is a novel about poker, dry cleaning, girlfriends, and muscle cars…but not necessarily in that order. Well, maybe it is in that order. Andrew Lang loves to play Texas Hold’em […]

No, I never did remember that plot idea I came up with in a dream the other night and trust me when I say it’s bugging the living crap out of me!
Argh.
And it was for the book’s love interest, Jake, who I love, love, love because he reminds me of my brother.
Double argh.
I need to […]

I had a dream last night where someone was talking to me about a minor plot thread in the book I’m editing and how it was “cliche.” (Yeah, I know. OUCH! Cliche–not good.) So, I thought for a while and then came up with a different idea. The other person […]

Happy Friday, all! Here’s another round of girlfriend gossip, this time with Bev Katz Rosebaum, author of the recently released novel, BEYOND COOL, the sequel (which can also be read as a stand-alone) to her phenomenally successful young adult novel, I WAS A TEENAGE POPSICLE.

“Fresh and fun—an absolute blast!” –Sarah Mlynowski, author of BRAS […]

So, I go to the Orioles game early last night, because my boys wanted to get signatures. I’m sitting there–doing some editing on TSC–when they announce who’s going to throw out the opening pitch. Guess what. It’s Jaslene, winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 8! I know, too cool, huh?

She’s […]

I am going to stick to my workout program this time.
Seriously. I mean it.
All those other times I blogged about working out? I was just kidding, you know, because I didn’t have anything else interesting to blog about so I just pulled that topic from a hat.
This time, however, I am focused. Determined. And sore […]

Today we have Tanya Lee Stone joining us in the beauty shop! Tanya is the author of A BAD BOY CAN BE GOOD FOR A GIRL, which has been called “Sure to be the new Forever” and “Vagina Monologues…for the teen crowd.”

Welcome, Tanya! Grab some coffee, get comfy in the beautician’s chair, and let’s get […]