on April 14, 2007
That’s what I’m thinking of titling my blog. I told one of my friends and she almost had a hernia. “Who, you?” she demanded. “Have opinions?” Yeah, okay. You know I do. It’s a fine old tradition in our house. My mother was notorious. My dad couldn’t get through a meal without staring a debate… Read More
on March 31, 2007
No, Eileen the furious. Eileen the outraged. Eileen the greatly disappointed. Before I tell you why, let me preface it by giving you a bit of my history. I worked in trauma nursing for sixteen years. We were the catchment hospital for familial abuse, so I took care of endless numbers of women caught in… Read More
on March 17, 2007
Yes, I know I’m late posting, but I”ve spent the day with my family. We consider this one of the high holy days, and spend it together–usually at a restaurant as far removed from an Irish bar as we can get. Because, you see, we’re not amateurs, and we don’t see a need to mix… Read More
on February 23, 2007
I’ve been hanging around Anne Stuart and Jenny Crusie a lot lately, and have been reading their blogs with great interest, and I love how they do that 12 days of whatever book they’re writing. I’m also amazed that they can do it. My problem is that, usually, if I’m writing about writing a book,… Read More
on February 16, 2007
I admit it. I’m a dog show junkie. There’s just something about canines on a runway that attracts me; I can’t say why. So I watched Westminster the other night–well, two nights. And I have to admit that I was pleased by the results. A beautiful springer spaniel won. I was pleased. Not thrilled. I’m… Read More
on January 29, 2007
So here I am back at the coffee shop, and I figure it’s about time I told you about Kareena Boudreaux. Now, for anybody who hasn’t read it, SINNERS AND SAINTS is where you’ll find my lovely Kareena, one of my favorite second-bananas I’ve ever gotten to write. SINNERS takes place mostly in New Orleans…. Read More
on January 25, 2007
I know, I keep saying I’m going to write about the genesis of my character Kareena Boudreaux in SINNERS AND SAINTS, and I keep meaning to, really. It’s just that there are so many interesting different factors in writing, that I feel a compulsion to write about something else and then forget Kareena. And I’m… Read More
on January 8, 2007
Oh, if writing were a linear life. If only I wrote a book, published a book, basked in the glory of publishing a book(or the ignominious shame of not selling a book well), and then started researching the next book. Of course, if I did it that way, it would take at least twice as… Read More
on January 1, 2007
It’s been a few days since I’ve posted. Amazing how time flies when you have twenty people to the house for Christmas eve and then another thirty five to your dad’s the next day. We had a wonderful Christmas. My whole family was here, which every year is getting to be a much more iffy… Read More
on December 19, 2006
“Excuse me. Can you tell me where VC Andrews is?”And so begins another adventure in the wonderful world of booksignings. Here I am at a major chain bookseller, sitting at the little table they’ve set up right in the pathway to not only the information booth but the bathroom–because people WANT you to interrupt their… Read More