by lb-admin | Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
March 11th has rolled around again, signaling that it’s time for the annual birthday blog. One of my favorite cheesy things to do on my birthday is read a gazillion of those “You Born Today” thingies. My mom always sends me the one from my hometown newspaper...
by lb-admin | Mar 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m racing down the final stretch of the first draft of BEAUTY QUEENS. Well, that’s optimistic. I WISH I were racing. More like limping while dragging a large slab of beef wrapped in chains. (Don’t ask me where that image came from. I have not, to my knowledge, ever...
by lb-admin | Mar 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the fun things about writing in a town different from your own is that everything seems new and somewhat miraculous: “Why look! They give you coffee in a blue mug in this café. What wonders will we next behold?” While here, we’ve written in a lovely bookstore...
by lb-admin | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I nearly killed Holly Black’s coffee pot. It began to wheeze and fill up at the top with brown water and refused to drip actual coffee into the carafe. Somehow I had managed to clog it up and my repeated attempts at resuscitating it were unsuccessful. Like...
by lb-admin | Jan 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
When I was five years old, my mother asked me what I’d like to be when I grew up. “Queen of England,” I answered. After all, her name was Elizabeth. My name was Elizabeth. LOVED her wardrobe. She had me at tiara. “You can’t be Queen of England,” Mom said. “You have to...
