Posts by Gin Phillips

So we’re back home for a few days after readings/signings in Alabama and Mississippi–Birmingham, Montgomery, Fairhope, Jackson, and Greenwood. This Saturday we head to Woodstock, Ga.; Asheville, NC; Charlotte, NC; and Atlanta. The baby did as well as we could possibly hope for on the trip, and we had a few wonderful surprises. Our friend…

So it is now the official release day for Come in and Cover Me. I just got back from an interview for our local ABC station. I’m getting a little concerned because at each interview lately–I did local NPR yesterday–as I’m waiting to go on-air, I inevitably start humming a really inappropriate song from Book…

Yesterday the January issue of Elle magazine hit the stands, and it has a review of Come in and Cover Me written by the lovely Kate Christensen. (If you haven’t read The Great Man and The Epicure’s Lament, you should get them for the holidays.) It’s an awfully nice review…so much more fun to read…

So we’ve pretty much got my book tour set for January and early February…please come out and see me! There’s nothing worse than talking to a bunch of empty chairs. Tour Events List COME IN AND COVER ME   Birmingham, AL Thursday, January 12 – 7:00 PM Barnes & Noble at theSummitShopping Center 201 Summit…

Looking ahead to Thanksgiving, I thought of this essay I wrote for Southern Living a few years ago. They cut it down to about half this length, but I still like the whole thing. And I think I may try to make a strawberry pie this week. Unsolved Recipes By Gin Phillips  I loved my…

I was on my way out of Walmart the other day when the cashier asked me what I did for a living. (I was buying notebooks, so she thought I might be a teacher.) The conversation followed the pretty predictable pattern it follows whenever someone asks me what I do: I say I’m a writer.…

1) I tried Ab Ripper on the P-90x exercise DVD for the first time since the baby. (That infomercial and all those flat abs hooked me long ago.) Things went fine until we got to the sit-up portion. I could not do a single sit-up. Not one. I just lay there like a stranded, spastic…

Today’s Five Random Things (As Explained Yesterday) –The baby peed on his own head today. –When I feed the baby in front of the TV, I watch reruns of Murder, She Wrote or Matlock. Sometimes NCIS. My husband only watches football with him. I wonder how the combination will screw him up. Violence seems inevitable.…

I am now trying to get back into some sort of regular blogging. Clearly, it hasn’t been happening. Neither has the journaling I’ve been meaning to do on the first few weeks and months of post-baby life. I’m not comfortable writing much about the baby or posting photos–I write novels, not memoirs, and I’m convinced…

Our baby boy was born on July 20th….20 inches, 10 pounds and 6 ounces. We’re both doing great…tired, but great.