Monthly Archives: December 2009

Started new novel, on new moon. Here is the view from my writing window today….

Mon Feb 22 :  Tallahassee FL: Florida State University. 8p.m. Reading with Q & A. Tues Feb 23:   Atlanta, Georgia: Savannah College of Art and Design- Atlanta Campus. SCAD Events Space. Part of Ivy Hall Writers’ Series. 6:30p.m. Lecture … Continue reading →

So, I confess — when not writing or going on booktours, I sneak around the back streets meeting cute guys who are also smart & funny, and very kind to elderly ladies such as self. Nice to know someone is … Continue reading →

See the Globe and Mail Tour blog at http://bit.ly/84c5Xb More hindsights on such things as Virtual Booktours & etc. here on this blog soon…

What Gardener Saints and Feast Days should be added to the Gardener list? There are many Gardener Saints and Feast Days mentioned in The Year of the Flood, but many other persons and natural beings/subjects worthy of Sainthood and Feast … Continue reading →

As wintry cold and snow descended on the transportation burrows through which writers on book tours scamper, bringing joyful words of hope and cheer to shivering readers huddling in the darkness and chill, the Year of the Flood Tour wound … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve finished The Tour and am unlikely to do anything like it ever again, here are fifteen helpful packing hints. Every one of them comes from experience, and you know what they say about that: Good judgment comes … Continue reading →

By popular demand.. 1. A small notebook, so your budding novelist can carry it everywhere and jot down notes, and possibly addresses. Moleskine is the classic, but there are many others. Should fit in pocket or bag. 2. A large … Continue reading →

As the YOTF Tour winds down — two more events to go, Ben McNally Books “Books and Brunch,” tomorrow, and Windsor on Tuesday — it’s time to do the laundry, clean stuff up, go for walks with waking pal Coleen. … Continue reading →

From Victoria, we went by Helijet to Vancouver. I was very pleased with Helijet. Not only are they carbon-neutralizing their flights, but they have Ethical Bean organic coffee in their waiting room – how Virtuous is that! – and they … Continue reading →