The Bright Face of Danger has been published in four separate French editions: as Fatale Vengeance (Harlequin) and as L’Innocence du Mal (Mira Books and Harlequin Bestsellers)!
Here are some comments from my French readers:
Boulimie livresque – Bienvenue sur mon blog
“J’ai lu ce livre en à peine 2 jours. Et je dois di [...]
MERCI BEAUCOUP!
The Bright Face of Danger has been published in four separate French editions: as Fatale Vengeance (Harlequin) and as L’Innocence du Mal (Mira Books and Harlequin Bestsellers)!
Here are some comments from my French readers:
Boulimie livresque – Bienvenue sur mon blog
“J’ai lu ce livre en à peine 2 jours. Et je dois di [...]
Transitions, Poetry, & Teens
I wonder whether we pay enough attention to the fragile time of transitioning from one thing to the next. Moving from playtime to bedtime can bring on a tantrum. Moving from one job to another may not bring on a tantrum, but it can be devastating. Moving from an old home to a new one can be soul-shattering. Transitioning from one season to th [...]
Waiting for the Call that You Think W...
Your agent has submitted the manuscript of your latest novel to a dozen major publishers. You are living in a strange pause, like being in a bare, sterile waiting room belonging to a stranger, where you wait for the call that will change your life. Again.
There isn’t a writer alive who hasn’t experienced this. Your story is not unique.
All th [...]
The New Book Reviewer
An intriguing discussion occurred recently between some of my Twitter friends regarding book reviews.
A reviewer had posted a brief disparaging piece (I wouldn’t call it a review, by any stretch of the imagination) about a historical erotic novel. Someone else had made an even more disapproving comment in response, about why writers feel the [...]
Nothing Time
Today I took a walk with a single-mom friend who has recently taken on a full time job. Her 10-year-old son gets home from school at 3:30 p.m.; she arrives home with his younger brother about an hour later.
I asked her if he was okay with being alone for that hour. She answered that he was ‘too’ okay with it.
“What does that mean, ‘too’ okay? [...]
Shakespeare & Co and a Tribute t...
A friend is on her way to Paris, and I urge her to visit Shakespeare & Co, a bookstore on the Rive Gauche. It’s a place that changed my life when I was just seventeen.
I had just arrived for a month of studying at the Alliance Francaise (hoping it would help me in preparation for the A Level exam). Because of a mix-up with a friend, somet [...]
Colors: Simplicity and Balance
If you’ve been following my ‘daily happinesses’ you might have noticed that each one is posted in a different colored font. And if you met me, after a while you might begin to notice that on certain days I wear red, on other days I might have on an orange scarf. Not always, but usually on Mondays there’d be a lavender or purple something. And [...]
Vigilante by Claude Bouchard
It’s summer in the unlikely city of Montreal, and a lot of people are out and about in Claude Bouchard’s edge-of-your-seat crime mystery/thriller, Vigilante . It’s been a long time since I read thrillers that weren’t redeemed (my choice of word) by romance or humor; thankfully Bouchard certainly has the latter. I was quickly intr [...]
Twitter: The Sense of Belonging
A few months ago I wrote about Romancing the Tweet and what I’d discovered in my early journey with this foreign and strange social medium. Because of something that occurred yesterday, I realize it’s time for an update.
Yesterday a fellow Twitterer posted links on his website of six Twitter friends (including me). He wrote a brief sentence a [...]
Six Books for the Journey
Yesterday a friend on Twitter asked this question “If you had to limit yourself to just 6 books, which ones would they be?” Here are some answers: http://ow.ly/lyBW
What’s interesting is the number of respondents (myself included) who simply couldn’t resist a challenge like this: thinking about limiting yourself to a small number of ‘must-rea [...]
Reading ‘The Meaning of Love...
The Meaning of Love
by Vladimir Solovyov, introduction by Owen Barfield
Lindisfarne Books
If you want to read one of the most logical, persuasive, and unusual treatises on this eternally fascinating topic, pick up this book! Following a brilliant introduction by Owen Barfield, Solovyov proceeds to dissolve most of our preconceptions about the [...]
“Tyrants coerce, whereas poets,...
Whenever I’m on a trip I think about my mother’s book: ‘Around the World by Mistake.’ In 1962-63 my parents took my brother and me on a year-long freighter voyage. They wanted to inspire us to regard the whole world as our home, and people from every country as our friends. ‘Around the World by Mistake’ is the true story of that freighter voy [...]
The Yellow Leaf
In August, every now and then I’m startled by the sight of a yellow leaf. It always seems too soon, and takes me by surprise.
It seems to signify the end of something big.
I try not to get caught up in a whelm of nostalgia. But in August I can’t seem to help it. There’s something about the sighing breeze that feels different now. There’s a ne [...]
Writer’s Block Revealed
In a recent essay on Writers Block and other Urban Legends (http://dosomedamage.blogspot.com/2009/08/writers-block-and-other-urban-legends.html#comments), Jay Stringer defines (and dismisses) the affliction that he says is erroneously labeled as writer’s block. At first, having suffered painfully from this alleged ‘affliction,’ I read his pie [...]
Romancing the Tweet
I’ve recently become a ‘twitterer.’ Twitter – this brave new world of sorts – has opened up new vistas that have made me view the whole world differently. I joined initially at the persuasion of my friend Richard (http://twitter.com/RCaro) – who seemed to imply that tweeting was essential for anyone who 1) is a writer; 2) is interested in oth [...]
Diva Do Over
The Letter
The phone rings. My daughter is calling from California. Not unusual – but imagine my surprise when she excitedly informs that she secretly nominated me for a Diva Do-Over at Body & Soul in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It’s a six-session program for women fifty years old and over.
Well, bless my soul. Here I am – a de [...]
