Odd business combinations. Again.
In the spirit of odd but perhaps brilliant business combinations, The Spin Cycle Cafe in Newington is a laundromat/bar/restaurant. They advertise dry cleaning beside the lunch specials. Happy hour alongside…
Product placement
In reading some of my Amazon reviews (I know I shouldn’t, but they’re still very good), I noticed that two people commented on the specificity to which I wrote about…
Writer’s Digest feature
An article about me and my book, Something Missing, appears in the July/August issue of Writer’s Digest. It’s great. A full-page article that includes a photograph of me (27 pounds…
Odd business combinations
I spent the evening at the Latchis Hotel in Brattleboro, Vermont, for a writing and booksellers’ conference. My publicist arranged the accommodations, so I was unfamiliar with the hotel when…
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
I don’t often recommend books sight unseen, but I saw this book on the NY Times bestseller list (trade paperback) and couldn’t resist immediately purchasing it. It’s published by Quirk…
Drippy and syrupy and just plain inexplicable
Being a novelist and an English major, I truly believe that I love books just about as much as a person can, and while I hate to criticize the legitimacy…
Collection of ideas
I have a very important Word document saved on my desktop which contains ideas for blog posts, a long list of children’s book ideas, notes for a future memoir, a…
Best place to think
I can’t explain it, and it might sound a bit cliché, but I make more breakthroughs in my writing while in the shower than anyplace else. Today’s shower yielded an…
What type are you?
Rocket Bomber describes the seven types of bookstore customers. I lean towards being "Independent" (anytime I must stop my current audiobook to interact with human beings annoys me) with strong…
Guilt-free book club
My book club has been attempting to arrange a meeting time after a six-month hiatus, during which my daughter Clara was born. The following is a string of emails we…
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