by Mary | Sep 13, 2011 | A THREAD OF GRACE, DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY, THE SPARROW, What I'm working on now.
“Shakespeare in Love” is one of my favorite movies. The screenplay is funny and clever and exciting and moving. The casting was perfect and the acting is grand. The costumes are almost distractingly gorgeous, especially when you watch in high def. Even the...
by Mary | Sep 6, 2011 | What I'm working on now.
I’m asking for help again! Last time I requested memories of piano lessons, which were fun and have already been incorporated into the first chapter of The Cure for Anger. Now I’m looking for stories about what it’s like to have a vertebra collapse...
by Mary | Aug 30, 2011 | DOC
This morning, my beloved husband of 41 years made me shoot coffee out my nose. He was reading a summary of Dick Cheney’s new memoir In My Time and muttered, “Should have been In Your Face.” Which was funny on sooooo many levels… A lot goes into...
by Mary | Aug 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
A week ago, my husband Don and I went to bed on an unremarkable Friday night. Six hours later, there was a startling 4 AM phone call telling us that my brother Richard had just undergone emergency abdominal surgery for a perforated bowel, part of which had been...
by Mary | Aug 10, 2011 | DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY
It’s hard for us to imagine how poor dental health was until recently. Michael Korda’s new biography of Lawrence of Arabia (Hero) gives a startling example. T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the Royal Air Force when he was 32, shortly after the 1921 Cairo Peace...
by Mary | Jul 27, 2011 | DOC, Just for fun!
As the publishing industry comes under heavier economic pressure, publicity departments have been downsized and budgets have been reduced. Now authors are expected to generate their own publicity, and I’ve noticed a strategy I think could really work well for...
