Mr. E. WilliamsJohnson & Alcock Ltd.Bloomsbury House74-77 Great Russell StreetLondon, WC1B 3DA Dear Sir: As the literary agent for the estate of Dick Francis, you probably receive too many letters concerning his novels and I apologize for adding one more. However, this letter is not to ask for licensing, reprinting, film or merchandising rights; nor does it demand Felix Francis be locked away until he creates six new...
Me at the Beginning: Hair washed,earrings in place and a pan-fried disaster This time, a year ago, I weighed 285. I’m not whining about this, and I’m certainly not bragging; I’m just stating a fact. A year ago my extra weight brought my life crashing to a halt. This seems like a good time to take stock. If you had asked me, back then, if I could lose 100 pounds in a year, I would have cried and told you ...
Sorry if you’ve missed updates of this blog for the past week or two. The combination of seasonal affective depression, a back injury and poison oak knocked me out for a bit. Hope you enjoy the return! Civilization’s changed a lot in the last hundred years. (That’s an understatement, wouldn’t you say?) We’ve gone from flimsy, barely airborne planes to walking on the moon and probes explorin...
One of the things fiction readers love is something Stephen King described as “pulling aside the curtain”. Grisham fans get a peek at the lives of lawyers because that’s the world their author had known before he picked up a pen. Val McDermid and Patricia Cornwell delight devotees with their stories of police and forensic detection because, as former crime journalists, they knew the turf. But it takes...
I fell in love with it the first time I saw it. My faux suedeskirt circa 2008 There, in the 2008 autumn catalog from Coldwater Creek, was the kind of skirt I’ve dreamed of most of my life. Long. Full. So Western in style it could have been used on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. (Okay, so my fashion sense is cuckoo.) Draped on the model with a Squash blossom necklace, it was the essential Southwestern Dream, or so I thought....