I Got My Mind Set On You
Today I made a startling discovery. I was putting on my eye makeup and listening to the 80s channel on XM radio (as I do every morning) when they played George Harrison’s I Got My Mind Set On You....
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New in November….
It’s November…. And you know what that means! No, not pumpkin pie! (Although it means that, too!) It means, among other things…. The Glee cast album is out! Finally! I thought I was going to go crazy...
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Don’t Be a Book Licker!
It was an exciting weekend here in Casa Cabot. Why? Well, since I’m going to be speaking and signing at the Miami Book Festival this coming Saturday (the fair starts TODAY! Click here to see all the...
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Change…
Some of us love experiencing new things, while some of us (okay…me) prefer the comfort of the familiar. Example: When my best friend told me on the bus to school that her dad had bought this machine...
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Romance, Trauma Porn, and Brazil Dates!
So many people have sent me this article (or the link to the original one it refers to)! Books about “dark” subject matters (like “13 Reasons Why,” about a girl who commits suicide, and “If I Stay,”...
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Harry Potter and the Gushy Stuff
I’m keeping busy writing Runaway, the sequel to Being Nikki, and revising Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls #5 (which just had a title change—from Birthday Bash to Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out,...
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Life After Labor
Yes! I’ve got deadlines! I know, I know, who doesn’t? At least, all my writer friends do. We’ve been burning up the Internet, going: “How many words do you have left? What chapter are you on? Do you...
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Is Social Networking Sucking the Life out of Romance Writing?
From an 8/3/09 PW article: Brenda Knight, associate publisher of Cleis Press’s Viva Editions, thinks she knows why the paranormal has become so dominant (in romance): “In the age of social networking...
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Writer’s Block
I was having the best time in NYC, helping friends to celebrate their birthdays (click here if you missed it), and shopping until I literally dropped, when I was felled by an insidious bronchial...
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FAQs from the Book Festival
Did I have an amazing time in California at the LA Times Festival of Books? Why yes, I did . . . . . . until the tacos I had the other night came back up in the airport security line yesterday morning...
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Blooper Video/Author’s Guild/Princess Mia
People often ask, “How do you come up with your book trailers?” I thought a look behind the scenes might give you a few hints. Check out my book trailer blooper reel! As you can see, book trailers are...
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On Bon Courage and Whether or Not to Kill Off Your Characters
So I spent most of last month in ANOTHER COUNTRY (France)! It was only my second non-book related trip outside of the US since I first got published. I felt a little guilty about it (proof you are a...
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