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 …
What’s on my shelf now?
I caught the crud over Christmas, which wasn’t much fun. On the upside, the subsequent lying around on the couch — coughing and whining — did afford me an opportunity …
Check out the Tournament of Books
So, this happened while I was preparing for Christmas, dealing with Christmas and then lying on the sofa recovering from Christmas: The short list for the 2015 Tournament of Books …
Details, details
Last weekend, I took a little research trip for the book I’m working on now, Boys I Have Dated. Boys, as I like to call it, is set in the …
Scary things on my bookshelf
Clementine the kitten actually is not among the scary things on my bookshelf. But in honor of Halloween, let’s talk scary books. For my money, the scariest thing ever written …
What’s on my bookshelf?
At the moment, the answer to that question is Clementine, the newest addition to our household. You can call her Tiny. She weighs 3 pounds and likes to purr and …
Love Outlander? Try this book
It took Starz all of two episodes to renew Outlander, the TV series based on Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling series, which is a surprise to absolutely no one who has read …
Remembering Nadine Gordimer
I first heard of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer, who died Sunday, in 1988. I was in my early 20s and living in Cincinnati. My book-of-the-month club offered A Sport …
A book, a hammock and lemonade
Ah, summer. Time to retreat to the hammock or the pool lounger with a glass of lemonade and a good book. I have been told that I make the world’s best …
Place settings
I had a reader tell me today that one of the things she enjoyed about Not in Time were all the different settings, which she found easy to visualize. She thought …