Am I the only one who loves to read an author’s acknowledgments–our version of credits, homage to everyone who touched our book? (Personally, I prefer to read the acknowledgments at the end of the book since it feels like a grace note–the thank you after sharing the work with the reader. I simply don’t get … Read More
North of Beautiful
Find Beauty Challenge: Beautiful Video!
Here’s another absolutely, truly beautiful video that was uploaded to my FIND BEAUTY CHALLENGE. Check out this touching tribute to friends. Love it. Aren’t you inspired to make your own video? I’m working on mine… Remember, contest ends at the end of March. COMPLETE DETAILS:Tell the world what you find to be Truly Beautiful! Just … Read More
North of Beautiful: Geocache-o-rama #5
Welcome to Day 5 (the final day…sob! sob!) of the North of Beautiful Geocache-o-rama. One of my favorite, if not most neurotic, things to do is…to change up my house. Rearrange furniture! Create new displays! Move my artwork! So in today’s cache–Beauty: One Etsy Step at a Time–I take you to one of my favorite … Read More
North of Beautiful: Geocache-o-rama #4
Welcome to Day 4 of the North of Beautiful Geocache-o-rama! Can I just say how fun it is to share my true geekiness with all of you? Come play with me!1. Visit the coordinates below.2. Answer the question by commenting on this blog. Include your name and email address.3. I’ll choose a winner randomly who … Read More
North of Beautiful: Geocache-o-rama #2
Welcome to Day 2 of the North of Beautiful Geocache-o-Rama! Today’s virtual cache? BEZAZZLED BEAUTY! How do you play? Visit the link that I provide below. Read the clue(s). Drop me a comment here with the Answer plus your name and email. A lucky winner will be chosen at random. What will you win? Limited … Read More
North of Beautiful: Geocache-o-rama #1
My editor emailed with great news last week: North of Beautiful is going into its second printing! It humbles me that in this economy, readers like you are buying books. My books. So to celebrate, I’m hosting a week of virtual geocaching with fun prizes of mucho fabulosity! Think of geocaching as high tech treasure … Read More
The North of Beautiful Geocache-o-rama!
I realize that for most people, hauling out to the incredible North of Beautiful geocache that Dia Calhoun created and placed in the Methow Valley (central Washington state) is almost as impossible as hauling up to Mt. Everest. As well, I recognize that most people do not have a GPS device of their own. (Although … Read More
North of Beautiful: The Official Geocache!
One of the most truly beautiful gifts anyone has ever given to me was made by the multi-talented Dia Calhoun. (She creates art! Writes fantasy! And verse! And fights off cougars!) A few weeks before I left for China last summer, she and Lorie Ann Grover met me in Winthrop–the setting for North of Beautiful. … Read More
North of Beautiful: Tour de Auburn
There are no cooler people on the planet than YA librarians. I mean, look at Rachel, the YA librarian for the Auburn Public Library. Roller derby queen. Articulate as anyone I’ve ever met. An intrepid traveler. And rolled up in a covet-worthy outfit. Meeting people–whether librarians or readers or booksellers–has got to be one of … Read More
Valentine’s Everyday!
My girlfriends and family were buzzing around me on Valentine’s Day, making sure that I felt beloved. Like my writer-buddy, Holly Cupala who read an early version of North of Beautiful. And Girl Overboard. AND my WIP. Anyway, Holly took me out for tea where she and her daughter gave me the most divine pair … Read More