In THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING, Tessa is an amateur photographer. So am I, though in typical writerly fashion, she is far more gifted than I. Still, I do love getting a good shot.
One of my great desires has always been to have a greenhouse. In a corner of my dining room is a small conservatory, [...]
THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING will be out in 27 26 days! Reader feedback so far has been extraordinary (check out the comments at GoodReads.com), and I’m very excited for everyone to read Tessa’s story.
To celebrate, I’ll offering a some little contests and giveaways over the next few weeks. This is the first one. I am giving away FOUR free ARCs of THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING. As soon as I draw names, I’ll run to the post office and mail them out, so you will have it by next Friday.
At CR’s urging, I decided to give the deconstruction of fish & chips a try. (For background on the Top Chef deconstruction challenge, read about it here.)
My challenge was to create a dish that would deconstruct fish & chips and end up tasting like the original. Since the only ingredients in the traditional offering are white [...]
The Lost Recipe for Happiness made the list of Foodie Beach Reads by the Philly Inquirer. Check it out.
Two news tidbits this morning:
Monthly blog post up at Writer Unboxed: The Last Month of a Book (or “I am pregnant beyond all ability to describe it” ). Which I wrote Monday.
Tuesday morning, the Pikes Peak Writers Conference called with an emergency. One of their keynote speakers is unable to [...]
To my astonishment and delight, THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS has now gone to six printings!
It has also been featured with a cluster of other dog books in Barnes and Noble, to my delight. (Including a writer I love very much, Patricia Gaffney.)
I’m finishing up the next book, working title 100 [...]
Come chat with me about Top Chef and food television at http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2009/03/20/bloodless-franchise/
The Lost Recipe for Happiness is the book of the month on W Network television in Australia. Join the discussion!
Joan Didion, the celebrated writer, went to Columbia Elementary School for awhile. The old building, made of red sandstone (as well as I can recollect), not the modern version that occupies the lot these days. I have been drunkenly reading her work, admiring the western cleanness, the spare and unsentimental way she captures the world, [...]
The Lost Recipe for Happiness debuts in Australia.
