Ode to Happy Endings

I read a lot. It doesn’t matter if the kids are screaming or a deadline is looming, I have to read. Fiction, nonfiction, all books call to me but at the end of the day I gravitate towards books with those gosh darn happy endings.
I’m not talking about fluffy or cotton-candy-pink kind of happy (though [...]





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    March 16, 2010 @ 11:00 am HST: Join Mia as she meets with members of the Kona Book Club at the Kona-Kailua Public Library to discuss her second novel, SWEET LIFE, and answer questions from the group

    April 9-10, 2010: Mia's teaching memoir at the 2010 Biennial Writers' Conference for the National League of American Pen Women (Honolulu Branch), Honolulu, Hawaii

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