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Last Wednesday, when the tornados hit Tuscaloosa and west Birmingham, we were just sitting down to dinner in our dining room with seven or eight family members. If you don’t live in a tornado-prone area, I’m sure it’s hard to understand how you ever feel unconcerned about the tornado siren going off. But we get…

Nearly two weeks ago, I had a signing/reading in Montevallo, Al., at Eclipse Coffee and Books. If you live in the area ad haven’t been, it’s worth going to Eclipse just for the milkshakes. (They were in the Birmingham News last summer in an article on the best  milkshakes in town.) My favorite is the…

It was a fairly eventful Spring Break. We went down to Rosemary Beach in Florida, and–aside from enjoying the weather and the sand–I also sold a book to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Well, I didn’t really sell it. My agent did. She’s the one who’s good at the actual business part. My new…

The best reading spot possible….

Well, finally we’ve had one of those great ienxplicable warm spells in winter that makes you love living in the South. I think it’s been a week now in the 60s and 70s. Shorts and T-shirts.  Ahhhh. Inevitably we’ll snap back to some winter weather before spring is really here, but this is so good…

I’m a little nostalgic for a good Oscar party.  For a few years, I always threw one, and everyone would bring themed food. (I’m a big fan of themed food.) Our friends Corey and Elaine did a fantastic job of making cupcakes representing each best picture nominee, with the themes of the movies being acted out by…

Okay, I took a very long blog sabbatical. First I wasn’t feeling well, then Christmas craziness hit, and eventually I just decided to take a break until after the holidays. Then that apparently extended until after MLK Day. But I’m back.  A quick update: GHOSTS UNDERGROUND is gone to the copyediting/layout stage–my part’s totally finished. Which is…

I’ve adjusted my Christmas shopping strategy this year. Usually I spend the end of November and the first part of December trying to get my work done, feeling guilty about not doing my shopping, and, ultimately, being totally distracted from work because of the aforementioned guilt.  Also the stress–there’s plenty of stress, too. (Especially because…

We drove to Columbus, Ga., this weekend for a soccer tournament, and we invented a new car game along the way. Really, it’s not a game. It’s basically making up limericks, with each person doing one line. So If I start, my husband does the second line, then the kids do one line each, and…

A little over a week ago, I went to speak to a class at Lawson State Community College. One of the students had written to my publicist and asked me to come, saying her teacher loved my book and several of the students had chosen to write on it. I was impressed. I’ve had plenty of…