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Articles about the soppy, floppy, saccharine sweet nature of Christmas stories always make me laugh (bitterly).  I’ve written a lot of holiday themed books.  Two novels and three short stories for Christmas, and a novella and a short story for Halloween (although I doubt I’m allowed to count those, since no one ever complains about […]

In one of those trips down memory lane (which we really need to cut out if we don’t want to look like old farts) my husband and I spent some time trying to explain The CBS Children’s Film Festival to #2 Son. For those of you not old enough to remember this:  back when there […]

I spend too much time looking at reviews.  Because I am an author, and therefore neurotic.  And have no one to duct tape my hands behind my back to prevent me from setting up Google Alerts. Although I may jump around the office and swear a bit when I find a negative review, I don’t […]

Like all historical romance novelists who have revisions due this week, I went to see The Expendables 2 last night. #1 son seemed to think that the first Expendables wasn’t that good.  Clearly, college is giving him fancy ideas.  I argue that, having already seen The Losers and The A Team, that summer, The Expendables […]

The war with nature continues at Casa de dos Quesos. In the beginning of summer, I learned that the first words out of your husband’s mouth in the morning should not be “We need an exterminator.” Four raccoons and six hundred dollars later, we were alone in the house again, with a capped chimney. Sort […]