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Well, last weekend we had our annual Halloween Costume Party, and this year’s theme was Excess. As usual, we had some excellent partygoers with clever ideas, and, also as usual, I forgot my camera about five minutes into the party. But here’s a smattering of the costumes: I was an NBA player with, naturally, an…

I’ve spent much of this week wondering how authors wrote anything without the Internet. The amount of time to answer a single question has surely exponentially shrunk. Back when I was writing Come in and Cover Me, I had a moment of thinking, “Hmm, so Scott is standing at Ren’s bed? What were those white…

Two things pop into my head as I sit down to write this: First, I have sworn to myself that I’ll start a book journal. In the past I’ve tried to write a short review (just for myself) of each book I’ve read so that I’ll remember what I liked or didn’t like about it.…

First, a quick bit of self-promotion. There’s a book fair at the Hoover Library this Saturday, July 28th, with a bunch of great authors, including  local writer Keith Thomson, who writes super cool spy thrillers. I envy Keith. It’d be nice to have such a great answer ready when someone says, “So what kind of…

Reading/signing tomorrow, Thursday, at the Florence Public Library (Alabama, not Italy.) 5:30 p.m. The baby will be available for your admiration!

I went to a reading/signing in Pinson, Al., today, and my limo broke down in the highway. That’s the kind of problem you always face with booksignings. Limo trouble. And sometimes the bright lights of the paparazzi give me a really stabbing headache.  Jokes.  Limos are not the kind of trouble you have at booksignings. No…

We spent the weekend in Charleston for the graduation of my beautiful and talented sister-in-law. (The baby once again accumulated awesome-traveller points–slept through the night every night and reacted to the eight-hour drive with excellent humor.) This is the third best thing about the city for me (Number 1 is caramel apples, specifically apple-pie-flavored caramel…

I love magnolias. They are my favorite flower, my favorite smell. They don’t bloom for long, but now is the sweet spot of the season, and trees all through the neighborhood are covered with them. They fit very nicely in a little two-flower vase we have in the kitchen. The only problem is that we…

I have found that it’s when I have the most material to blog about that I don’t get around to blogging.  I’ve got all sorts of good stuff built up now, so I’ll see if I can’t catch up with my life. What with the baby and trying to get some small measure of writing…

A couple of weeks ago, Come in and Cover Me got a nice mention in Parade Magazine (that super thin insert that comes with some Sunday papers).  It read, “Part love story, part field guide, this beguiling novel charts the excavation and restoration of a damaged soul.” That’s may be my favorite sentence in a review,…