What a Difference a Year Makes: Guest Blogger Patricia Wood

I am honored and pleased to introduce today’s guest blogger and fellow Hawaii resident, Patricia Wood. She also has a wonderful blog that’s attracting readers and writers from around the world. Her debut novel, LOTTERY (Putnam, August 2007), is a poignant and wise novel about a very rich underdog who shows everyone just how little [...]

The Earthquake Chocolate Relief Fund

This just out: if you can make it through a 6.7 earthquake (including a 5.8 aftershock and some), then you are entitled to some chocolate. Or, at least, to write off-topic. “The hairy thing that lurks under my bed” suddenly seems harmless when compared with your entire house rocking and rolling like nobody’s business. “The [...]

Who Has Time to Eat Chocolate with All That Writing Going On?!

What’s so funny is that this picture is of TWO chocolate-covered macadmia nuts, when in truth I have eaten about, oh, TWENTY in the past half hour. Maybe 21. The point is, I’m actually VERY busy writing right now, and I’m only eating this chocolate because, well, it’s there. Yes, I bought adorable packages of [...]

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