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Finally

Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:36:35 -0500

We have found a place to live. Miss Tyler (wearing a bee costume) now has a lovely condo overlooking the Twins stadium. It was a long hard road to get here, which you’ll have to read about in the memoir. :)

I’m working on the new novel for W.W.Norton (yeah!!!) and so I won’t be here that often. If you want to keep up...come to Facebook....there’s a link up front.

Till soon...as they say.

xo

You Can Vote!

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:14:55 -0600

How cool is this?

A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts has won a gold medal from the Florida Book Award and is up for the Minnesota Book Award...and you can vote.

Here.

You don’t have to be a Minnesota resident, you just have to love the book. And I hope you do.

more later...

RECKLESS HEARTS Wins Book Award!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:29:02 -0600

I won the Florida Book Award for Fiction! See here.

On March 24, I will fly to Tallahassee to be presented with a gold medal. A real gold medal, just like the Olympics! I am thrilled, to say the least.

Many thanks to everyone at Borealis Books who worked with me to make this happen. From the wonderful Director Pamela Mc Clanahan, a swell gall who I adore because she took a big risk to do this book, to my publicist the remarkable and ever-fashionable Alison Aten. Also a shout-out to the untiring Sales and Marketing Manager Mary Poggione , the patient editor Shannon M. Pennefeather who reviewed the manuscript line by line, Sales Associate Leslie Rask who answered my endless questions with grace and humor and the wonderful Editor-in-Chief Ann Regan (she is fun in a box).

And G-d bless my agent ICM’s Lisa Bankoff for putting up with me all these years. She’s been my agent nearly longer than I’ve been married to any of my husbands....and that’s saying a lot.

More later...

Typos!

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:55:48 -0600

Typos sneak in when you least expect them. Everybody makes them. Everybody hates them.

An recent Amazon review of my new book THE CONSTANT ART OF BEING A WRITER pointed out the typos in that work and slammed me for them. Of course, the reviewer was correct. The manuscript should have been flawless but it wasn’t.

My old editor at Hyperion used to say that it’s best to keep some typos in because it makes the reader feel superior. I’m not sure I agree. You pay good money for a book. It should be perfect. Unfortunately, publishers run tight schedules and don’t employ enough people to make sure the manuscript is flawless. When a book goes through several editors, mistakes do happen. It’s maddening.

Of course, I did mention this in the book. It’s a huge issue in publishing. Maybe he didn’t get to that part....although he did claim to read the entire book before he returned it because of the typos.

Hmm.

So for those of you who were bothered by the typos...I think there are about six...I really am sorry. We’ve caught them and plan to correct for the second edition. However, there probably are a dozen more lurking in the shadows. If you want to help, drop me a line and let me know which ones you’ve found.

Thanks!

More later...

Taking Flight

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:29:52 -0600

Whale Season is now one step closer to being a real movie. A-list writer Michael Ellis has signed on and the script will be ready in Spring. Mr. Ellis has written the Wedding Planner (starring J-Lo) and the forthcoming An Invisible Sign of My Own for Jessica Alba (which is based on the book of the same name written by a great gal and my sweet e-pal Aimee Bender).

It’s all very exciting stuff. Hopefully, when the script goes to auction, it finds a good home. Fingers crossed.

more later...