Entries by Julia London
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fiction for all women and a few good men. She writes historical romance and women's fiction light. A wishy-washy Pisces, Julia is a procrastinator with poor dog training skills. She has wogged her way through five half marathons and was so impressed with herself she bought a bike. She's been kind of grumpy lately, so watch out. The Last Debutante, on sale now. The Fancy Lives of the Lear Sisters, reissues, on sale May 21.
Like all of you, I have read so many books in my life I have forgotten more than I remember. I have read some great books and some really bad books (at least until I finally decided life is too short and I wasn’t going to spend any more time finishing books that did not [...]
66 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, May 13, 2013 at 4:51 am.
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Not really. But doesn’t it seem like everything you buy these days come with points? I figured out a long time ago that signing up for points at Office Depot doesn’t work for me, because I really need to spend more than $75 a year to earn anything. The only thing I do enough of [...]
38 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 3:57 am.
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Every house has one. You know, that thing that happens when you’re not really thinking and you put something down, and when you go back to pick it up, you can’t find it again. Ever. This happened to me last week. But the thing that completely disappeared was an electronic gadget that is now taunting [...]
84 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 4:28 am.
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Do you ever see something and love it, and wish you’d thought of it? Do you ever see someone and think, I wanted to be that person? It doesn’t happen to me very often, but my admiration for brilliance has me wondering sometimes if it’s too late to re-invent myself and come up with the [...]
51 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 3:54 am.
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So I’ve got a new list of things I just don’t get. Is it just me? Here’s my top three things: 1. With almost every purchase, someone wants my email address. Sephora, Best Buy, Office Max, Nordstrom’s — the only place that hasn’t asked me for my email address is the grocery store. I [...]
84 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:12 am.
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So I’m at dinner with a 20-something and a 30-something. The waiter takes our drink order and then asks to see the ID of the 20-something. I was shocked! Offended! Why her and not me? Because in my head, I am still the same age as her. I’m ageless. I’m just me, the same person [...]
88 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 4:08 am.
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In THE LAST DEBUTANTE, my fourth and final installment in the Secrets of Hadley Green series, I return to Scotland. You may be asking yourself, “When were you in Scotland?” It is true that most of my historical romances have been set in jolly old England, but I have written four that were set in [...]
112 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 4:04 am.
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Many, many years ago, I went with a boyfriend to his parents house. They did not know we were coming. They had several little pugs running around who were not house-trained. I mean seriously not house-trained. My memory is that there were four or five dogs, but my memory tends to exaggerate as time goes [...]
125 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, February 4, 2013 at 4:34 am.
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So last Tuesday, I woke up with rosy red cheeks, some major aches, and a raging headache. Allergies, I said. But as I was due to get on a plane Wednesday, I thought I better go check it out. You guessed it – I had the flu (and no, I didn’t get flu shot this [...]
83 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, January 21, 2013 at 4:20 am.
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I have just finished a delightful little book, Mrs. Queen Takes the Train. It’s about Queen Elizabeth, as we know her now. She is depressed. She’s spent her life in service to her country and she yearns for something a little different. She’s into yoga and the internet, but she would like to walk beyond [...]
35 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 11:51 am.
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I don’t know where I have been since 1976, but I was not aware that Lake Superior University has been publishing the Word Banishment List at the end of every year. I don’t even know which state Lake Superior University is in. But they do it, and here is explanation from the Univesity’s website: “The [...]
107 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 4:14 am.
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One day, I was driving in one of those pretty but impractically designed shopping centers. There was a huge median full of Crape Myrtles. At a stop sign, I stopped, looked both ways–or at least as far as I could see around the trees–and went. But someone was coming and when we saw each other, [...]
67 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 4:14 am.
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By the time you read this, you have probably recovered from your tryptophan-induced coma, and you are at work, or at home playing, or, if you are in the United States, chances may be very good that you are standing in line somewhere waiting to check out. Today is Black Friday, when hordes of Americans [...]
50 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Friday, November 23, 2012 at 4:00 am.
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Every year, the holidays stress me out, but not for the reasons you probably think. I’m not traveling anywhere, I don’t have that many gifts to buy. What stresses me out is the food. I am a champ at eating, but I suck at making it. First stressor is Thanksgiving. We like a formal dinner [...]
85 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 3:58 am.
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Do you believe in fate? Some people put a lot of store in the notion that chance encounters aren’t really made up of that much chance. Some believe things happen for a reason, that the universe positions itself to give you what you need. Check it out: Even shrinks think about the real role [...]
98 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 4:30 am.
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In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He had three ships and left from Spain; He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain. He sailed by night; he sailed by day; He used the stars to find his way. How many of you remember that Columbus actually landed in the Bahamas? I had forgotten [...]
29 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, October 8, 2012 at 4:23 am.
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I really don’t. Sometimes, I ask my gynecologist questions outside her area of expertise, and she says, “You have to get a primary care physician.” But I really don’t. I only go to the doctor once a year for the girl stuff. If I get a cold, I ride it out. I can’t remember the [...]
87 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 3:47 am.
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Time Magazine recently had an article about how everyone has a cell phone now, and in that article were some interesting stats. One that caught my eye was that in the USA, almost 40% of cell phone users prefer texting to talking on the phone. Another sizable percentage said they were now closer with [...]
85 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 3:53 am.
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You know how you can spot the end of summer? It’s not by the official date of season change, or the start of school. It’s really more of a feeling, of little things that start to add up that tell me the end has come. You have probably noticed similar things that make you realize [...]
148 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 4:28 am.
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If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know I’ve been battling myself trying to finish up the last book in the Secrets of Hadley Green, The Last Debutante (due Thursday! If not before!). I have discovered that in the last few years, deadlines get harder and harder to meet because I don’t want [...]
66 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, July 16, 2012 at 3:22 am.
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I have been complaining to friends and on Facebook that I am finishing a book that has some capital P problems. I am running out of time and I see how much I have to do to fix it, and I have other, family obligations, and I am really really cranky this weekend. It’s not [...]
81 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, June 25, 2012 at 4:11 am.
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Full disclosure on today’s blog: I watch a lot of trash reality TV. I can’t help it, I can’t look away. A lot of them have to do with girls, both young and old. Girls, a new HBO comedy, is written, produced, directed and starred in by 25 year-old Lena Durham (Durnam? Something like that). [...]
62 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 3:51 am.
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In January, I had a diva moment. My publisher took a little bit of time to answer a question, and the answer affected the book I was writing, so I said, a little testily, “that’s all well and good, but I will need at least another month to write this!!!” Harumph. And they said…”Okay!” As [...]
118 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 3:44 am.
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Last month marked my four -year Runiversary. Four years ago, I was out for my daily walk, and I decided (after much phone prodding from my sister), to see if I could run to the end of the block. I made it, but it required a few moments of gasping and trying to stuff my [...]
49 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 3:50 am.
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I have a florescent light under a cabinet that doesn’t work. I’ve changed the bulb twice–no easy feat, as they go in a certain way and click in a certain way–but the light won’t come on. What does this mean for me? It means I am going to have to call The Guy to come [...]
86 Comments. Posted by Julia London on Monday, April 30, 2012 at 4:35 am.
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