If you pick up the April issue of Good Housekeeping—the one with Dr. Oz on the cover—and turn to page 59, you’ll find a full-page photo of yours truly. Or will you? My 11-year-old’s first reaction? “Mom, this doesn’t look anything like you.” I beg to differ. It looks exactly like me. Only better. Let’s […]
I have always done my own income tax, even in the days before there were tax programs that did all the mathematics. A confession here, I am no good at arithmetic. My adding skills are lousy–even using a calculator. Despite all that I still did my own income tax. I was good at reading and […]
Here’s a confession from the Northern Half of Evelyn David. It’s important to distinguish who is talking here because as you will learn, there’s a real schism in this partnership. When I drive, I listen to Sirius Radio, specifically I listen to On Broadway (channel 75) with Seth Rudetsky and Christine Pedi, self-described as “a […]
Laura has drawn a name from the list of commenters on her Friday post, and it’s Carol M! Carol, you’ve won a copy of Laura’s debut, Beautiful Disaster. We’ll try to get in touch with you to get your mailing address for her. If you see this first, please email sueauthor@aol.com. Congratulations!
by Laura Spinella When the fabulous Susan McBride invited me to guest blog at The Stiletto Gang, I was intimidated. I haven’t owned a pair of stiletto heels since—well, frankly, I don’t think I’ve ever owned stiletto heels. Not by lack of desire, I simply have feet more akin to a duck than a diva, […]
by Denise Swanson Phew! My newest book, Murder of a Bookstore Babe, came out March 1, and I’ve been on the road promoting it for the past two and a half weeks. Writers have to be a bit schizophrenic. We spend the majority of our time alone, in front of a computer with only a […]
With so much death and destruction in the world, I look to find any glimmer of hope in the news of the day. I found it last week in the New York Times where an article discussed a recent study which reported a 20% rise in cancer survivors in the United States. I, for one, […]
The reason I put the cover of my latest book, Angel Lost, up today is because I like it and it makes me happy to look at. What doesn’t make me happy is all the scary stuff going on all around the world with the Japan earthquake and tsunami being at the top of the […]
Tsunamis, Nuclear Meltdowns, Earthquakes, Grassfires, Union Busters, Protesters, Crazy Dictators, Crazy Actors, Crazy Politicians …. And that was just last week. In between crises (Or is that crisi? What’s the plural of crisis? Cause we don’t just have one crisis at a time anymore.) Anyway, in between, I did my income taxes (I’m officially getting […]
–Leann Sweeney First, thanks to the Stiletto Gang for inviting me to stop by. My new release in the Cats in Trouble Mystery Series, The Cat, The Lady and The Liar, will be released April 5th. Every book is like one of my children, each with its own personality, each connected to events in my […]