What a festival it was
What did I do at the 2016 Dallas Book Festival? Exactly what everyone else did! I listened to authors speak and then hurried out to the bookstore The Wild Detectives …
Keeping Dallas in Suspense
The Dallas Book Festival is just days away! Join other North Texas book lovers on April 30, in downtown Dallas at the Central Library Look for me at 12:50 in the …
Caring about Characters
What makes a reader care about a character? I visited a book club the other night that read Identity, which gave me the opportunity to hear the members’ reactions to the characters. …
Readers ask the best questions
Saturday night was the Tables of Content event at Southern Methodist University, where I was one of the “Top 10 Haute Young Authors” featured. I fielded so many interesting questions …
Prefer indie bookstores?
Amazon’s business practices and ongoing dispute with Hachette Publishing have led some readers to take their book-buying bucks to independent bookstores. A couple people have asked me about this, thinking …
An apology to a disappointed reader
I noticed this morning that Identity had a new review on Amazon, so I clicked over to see what the reader had to say. This was not one of those …
Identity is out in paperback!
I can think of plenty of reasons a person might need an actual, physical book rather than an e-book: The pilot hasn’t yet indicated it’s safe to use approved electronic …
Coming Soon: Identity in paperback!
The UPS driver brought me the proof copy of Identity on Tuesday, and I’ve been busily marking it up this week. (When not working at my day job, which — …
Write What You Know? Yes, But…
In today’s installment of “Ask Amy,” the advice columnist hears from a writer whose novel was a fictionalized version of her own life and now is dealing with fallout from …
‘Devouring the words… like M&Ms’
Another blogger has weighed in with a review of Identity, and it’s another rave. Sherry Fundin, on her blog Fundinmental, says: “This book is full of betrayal, love, sacrifice and …