Parnassus Books Nashville, TN Last week I had the opportunity to do a YA panel at one of my very favorite indie bookstores, Parnassus. I’ve been DYING to get there since it first opened, so when I was invited, I jumped at the chance. Also, it meant my very first night sans kiddo in a…
Yup, I’m back! After nearly three years of neglect, I’m going to give this blogging thing a whirl. Don’t get too excited, we’ll see if it sticks. But for now, I’m back with a new feature where I’ll share with you the things I’m loving these days. There will probably almost always be a bookish…
After the long hard winter we endured (ok, not so much down here in Georgia, but it did get kind of a cold a for a few days!), I know we’re all really excited for summer. Whether you’re headed to the beach, cooling your heels by the pool, lounging on a porch, pausing on a…
This was a ridiculous year of reading … I set an initial goal of 75 books, and as I write this on December 11th, I’ve blown past that to 105. I’ll probably add another 3-4 books before New Year’s (we’re doing Christmas in Key West this year, which means plenty of sunny, poolside reading!), but…
No seriously, I am. But if you saw my panel at Decatur Book Festival with Leigh Bardugo and David Levithan (yeah, THAT HAPPENED!) where we talked about social media, you’ll know that I take the Ron Swanson view of all things Internet: So I choose to whole ass Twitter, because that’s like the unicorn of…
1. As I mentioned in my previous posts, my writing life is currently getting a serious spit ‘n polish thanks to a reading of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. Which brings me to my first story … my dog has serious thunder anxiety. She paces and whines and drools and claws at all the doors…
Since my devouring of Bird by Bird, I’ve been trying to write in a different way. Listening to my broccoli and looking through the one-inch frame and the like. And let me tell you, it works, but it’s HARD. It requires a lot of extra credit work that likely won’t ever see the light of…
“Honey? Leave him lay where Jesus flang him.” Bird by Bird is a very famous, New York Time bestselling book about writing by novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott. Pretty much every writer ever has recommended it, which is why I bought it three or four years ago. It’s also why I recommend it … even…
1. Yep, as the title of this post says, I’m off to visit some of my readers! I’m touring with a lot of awesome writers, including Lenore Appelhans, Lauren Oliver, and Nova Ren Suma, so definitely check out my events page to see if I’m coming to a city near you. I’d love to meet…
Get ready, intrepid blog readers, for I’m going to tell you a story about one of the best days of my authoring life thus far. On Sunday, I made my way up to Little Shop of Stories in Decatur to see Maureen Johnson and Stephanie Perkins on their tour stop. Because when two of your…