Ticking time bomb

by kelly on January 25, 2012 · 1 comment

All right, people–my reading time is about to get severely restricted by this very demanding little bundle who will arrive in March. What do I absolutely HAVE to read in the next six weeks? Please comment below with your recommendations!

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Big news–updated!

by kelly on December 16, 2011

One quick update to let you know that the title of my forthcoming novel has changed. I am very pleased to tell you that the novel, still coming in September 2012, is now called In Need of a Good Wife. Here is the announcement posted in today’s Publisher’s Marketplace: Author of THE LOST SUMMER OF [...]

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Many paths, one destination

by kelly on September 15, 2011
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Think you need an English degree to write novels? Think again! Here are four writers (and University of Michigan grads) who came to writing from subjects and interests other than English. It was a treat conducting the interviews with these four talented Wolverines!

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Interview: Susan Gregg Gilmore

by kelly on August 26, 2011
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I am so pleased to welcome Susan Gregg Gilmore to the blog today. Susan’s second novel, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, is now out in paperback! If you haven’t picked it up, here is what you need to know: Coming of age in a house darkened by the remnants of the Old South as well [...]

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Interview: M. J. Rose

by kelly on August 1, 2011
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I am so pleased to welcome the wonderful M.J. Rose to the blog. Not only is M.J. a successful writer, but I can’t think of anyone who understands marketing in book publishing better than she does. Her latest book, The Hypnotist, is an adventure, a love story, a clash of cultures, and a spiritual quest [...]

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Interview: Maria Dahvana Headley

by kelly on July 18, 2011
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I think I will let Neil Gaiman (Neil Gaiman!) speak about Maria Dahvana Headley’s Queen of Kings: “. . . a powerful work of the imagination, stalking the murky, dangerous territory between Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned and Robert Graves’ I, Claudius and should appeal to those who like their historical fiction, and those who [...]

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“I can’t look you in the voice”

by kelly on July 7, 2011
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It’s reassuring to see that even Dorothy Parker sometimes had those days, as demonstrated by this telegram she sent to her editor in 1945.

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