Archives for “My Life As A Plebe”
Let me tell you how I met Lori Handeland/Austin. We were at an RWA conference in New Orleans. We were on a sight-seeing/research trip to The Oaks plantation. We started talking in the gift shop, realized she had my first agent and I had her second agent, and that my second agent had been her [...]
Hot Cop and I were chatting over ice cream sandwiches (his latest craze) talking about crazy photo fads. Nowadays (and pardon me if I sound old, but we were eating ice cream, which can make one nostalgic) there are duckface photos and photobombing, but not too long ago there was planking. For those of you [...]
Author’s Note: Shameless Plug: The second book in the Duchess Diaries Series, HOW TO PURSUE A PRINCESS is out on the 21st! Here I am, just now beginning to understand how my cellphone works (well, not how it WORKS precisely, but I am finally admitting that the process doesn’t involve ‘little phone elves who sing [...]
I’m a native Californian. It’s a pretty cool state. We have beaches, mountains, movie stars. Lots of sunshine. And avocados! I didn’t actually think too much about what’s also known as the “alligator pear” and the “fertility fruit” until I moved to SoCal and saw the trees planted all over the place. In front yards, [...]
When I and my brother and sister were little, my great grandmother would send us the same Christmas gift every year. She’d send my brother twenty or thirty nearly priceless pre-Civil War silver dollars, and she’d give my sister and I exactly one dirty, torn dollar bill and a piece of broken costume jewelry she’d [...]
Only Girl is getting married! You know what that means. Wedding stuff galore. Drowning in wedding stuff, wedding decisions, wedding details. Only Girl (marrying who shall hence be known as Number Three Son, because he’s just that awesome) is having a simple wedding. Stop laughing. I mean it! Really, it’s a very simple home wedding. [...]
I like to think that I’m a risk-taker, an adventurer, an unabashed embracer of all things unusual. After all, I left a secure job and took on a very chancy and difficult career; have traveled the world to England, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and other faraway lands; and (most difficult and adventuresome of all) I’ve [...]
The thing about families is that you are around them so much that you get used to them. They are normal to you. Every now and then something happens that makes you really think about your family objectively, however, and you realize that maybe the rest of the world won’t find them so normal. This [...]
