I’ve been flailing like a madwoman all week with nervous energy for the trade paperback print release of Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) in Books-A-Million stores. My mother-in-law (unlike the stereotype, we get along fantastically) sent me the first proof of the book on the shelves, a quick snap…
Magnets, that’s how. I’m going on my first real outing as an author Sunday, a decision that launched the full-blown panic of oh my God, I have nothing to hand out! (The dog loves it when I panic — she thinks the jumpy turning-in-circles dance is a great game.) In…
I love getting real mail delivered. Not junk mail; that’s boring. But a letter or a package with my name on it? Thrill. Today I got a huge (and heavy!) thrill — my author copies of Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) in print arrived. Completely unexpected! You know new-book…
The Neighborly Affection series is going to be in bookstores! The Neighborly Affection series is going to be in bookstores! Yes, I’m so excited that I said it twice. It’s a sentence I never thought I’d be saying. You know when you walk into a bookstore and there’s some idiot…
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — The White Queen, Through the Looking Glass When I started writing Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) on April 1, 2012, I thought the date was a pretty good joke, because I was definitely fooling myself — it…
