TodDear un surprise to share with you...What a strange week I'm having. As I type this, nothing is showing up. I have to highlight th text and click on black ink after every line. I have no idea why. I'm still having trouble getting Coffee Stains int...
Hello ,I have an extra surprise to share with you this week!I'm so excited to share that Coffee Stains was selected to take part in a BookSweeps giveaway! There 30+fantastic authors in this giveaway, a huge collection of Literary, Historical & Wo...
Happy Thursday ,I started out this year by picking up a book I've been meaning to read since last summer. It's a thriller, or perhaps police procedural, set in my husband's hometown. BUT it's over 500 pages, so the sheer length of it had me waiting u...
Happy Thursday ,I had the honor of talking to two New York Times best-selling romance authors this week! And they were so much fun to talk with. I'll tell you a little about it below. First, the author swaps. I have some really interesting books of v...
Happy Thursday ,I had the honor of talking to two New York Times best-selling romance authors this week! And they were so much fun to talk with. I'll tell you a little about it below. First, the author swaps. I have some really interesting books of v...
Bonne Année!In France we greet with "Happy New Year" all through January. I learned that lesson very quickly with a shopkeeper quick to sternly let me know that the correct response on January 13 was "Bonne Année." The best part about living in any F...
Dearest readers,I hope you had a wonderful Christmas weekend, full of rest and good food and perhaps even a good book near a fireplace (real or electronic). In our house we started a new tradition: cooking as a family. But not just helping me run aro...
Merry almost Christmas! My eight-year-old let's me know every morning how many days are left until she get a Nintendo Switch. She's decided that regardless of whether or not Santa gives it to her, that surely there will be enough money given to her b...
Hello fellow readers,Perhaps I should pay more attention to the world going on around me, but I had no idea The New York Times was having a vote on the best 25 books of the past 125 years! It's too late for me to vote, or anyone to vote anymore, but...
Good afternoon lovely reader,It's a beautiful, rainy day here in Virginia. I woke up at 5:45 to hike through this area, breaking my boots in more and keeping my legs ready to hike Mt Everest! I also woke up to an email from Amazon. A notor...