Last Days of Summer
So here we are: August 1, 2010. More than half way through what was, at one point, a new year and closer to the next one. Is it just me or has time flown by like nobody’s business? Lately I’ve been going around the island with my husband and trying to play tourist. There’s a [...]
Foreign Friendship Bread, a Little World Music, and a Contest!
If you’re a Facebook fan, then you’re getting the updates on the foreign rights that have been sold for my next novel, FRIENDSHIP BREAD (not a fan yet? Join the party now!). So far rights have been sold to Allen & Unwin in Australia in a pre-empt, Leya Brazil (for Portuguese language rights) in a [...]
Mia Needs a Haircut and Some Friendship Bread
I am shockingly overdue for a blog post. And a new haircut. But I have an excuse! (I know, I’m a writer — we don’t get excuses! At least that’s what I tell my students.) You may have heard the news about my next novel, FRIENDSHIP BREAD. It sold at auction in mid-March to Ballantine [...]
Shirred Eggs and First Drafts
2010 kicked off with a bang. Well, not really because we fell asleep before we could do any fireworks, but the minute I woke up I was back to work on book four. It’s nearing completion but the truth is it will continue to be a work in progress until the book comes back from [...]
Got Friendship Bread?
If you’re following me on Facebook, chances are you’ve been hit—more than a few times—with images and posts from my new Facebook page, Friendship Bread Kitchen. Friendship Bread Kitchen is my new virtual kitchen, but unlike Café World (an addictive Facebook application that lets you run a restaurant and cook lots of fun things and [...]
Wanting is a Very Good Thing
2010. I have been waiting for this year to come for reasons I cannot explain. I actually started writing it on checks last year. I have photos that I’ve dated 2010 when it was 2009. I’d say it even trumps 2020 for me, a year that I’m sure will get lots of media coverage and [...]
Visualizing 2010: Crafting Your Future
You’ve probably heard about vision boards. Basically it’s crafting your future — literally and figuratively. It got a lot of press when The Secret was out a few years ago, and Oprah even partnered with Getty Images to create an O Dream Board desktop application so people could make vision boards without ever have to [...]
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 [...]
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