Australian Romance Readers Conference – Day 1

The Australian Romance Readers Conference opened with a lovely evening reception followed the next day by a slate of panels, keynotes, and signings.
Five out of six of the main speakers  at the event were American (MaryJanice Davidson, Susan Grant, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love and me!), and to my great pleasure I knew them all from prior [...]

Melbourne: Mmm. Food. Good.

Personally, I’m still recovering from the majesty of Marianne puking into her makeup bag at NYC Fashion Week (I told her she sounded like a very special episode of Ugly Betty and that her solution showed true calm in the face of crisis.  I’m also making a mental note never to borrow her lipgloss again.  [...]

10,000 miles later…G’Day Melbourne!

I landed in Australia today.  Over 10,000 miles/3 flights/1 spectacularly hideous-looking untouched meatloaf dinner later.  Old friend and fellow author Susan Grant was on the flight.  She was somewhere upfront on a reclining first class seat (She’s also a pilot.  Perks, yo.) probably having grapes fed to her by a scantily clad twenty-something Australian boy. 
I [...]

We Have (most honorable) Porn………and cake.

Oh, c’mon.  You couldn’t expect me to pass on leading with THAT snap from dealer row.  It’s a science fiction con. What were you expecting?  Yeah, yeah, okay. 
Ahem.  Here’s what I probably should have led with.  Me, left.  Alisa, right.

So what DID become of our foray into the depths of Arisia 2009?  The original purpose of going [...]

Eyes on Special Mystery Project X

While Marianne was sipping strawberry margaritas in Mexico (Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And not that I’m jealous or anything.), I was taking new photos outside in snowy twenty-something degree weather for Special Mystery Project X (which you will be hearing about soon, but until then, which will be referred to as…Special [...]

A Very Mad Cow Affair

So I went to Marianne & Jacob’s for Christmas and somewhere in the midst of the whiskey tasting/karaoke/board-game playing*, I received an email on my Blackberry from Antarctica.  Those of you who have been following me for a while have probably read a post or two about spending the holidays at McMurdo research station in [...]

It’s nice to know you can get more than body dysmorphia from doing time in L.A.

It’s nice to know you can get more than body dysmorphia from doing time in L.A.
 
So yesterday, I was on my elliptical trainer listening to Daft Punk via my prized Blackberry (iWhat?) and trying to lose ten years when the phone rang.  
 
 It was HollywoodJon letting me know there was a Poison Ivy marathon on
Lifetime [...]