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Jun.10.2013
There are ways in which I’m fearless (although I’m struggling to come up with them now) and there ways in which I’m a complete coward. Reading my work aloud terrifies me, but I am always willing to do it as I don’t believe I can just silently write (in my mind, at my dining room table, in the...
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Dec.01.2012
The incredibly charming and talented Susan McCallum-Smith pulled me in to a blogging tag-team game called The Next Big Thing. Here are the questions she sent:
What is the working title of your book?
The Wonder Bread Summer
Where did you get the idea for this book?
When I was 20-years...
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Nov.29.2012
The remarkable true story of the transformation of Carolyn Sherman-Collins who triumphed over years of sexual abuse and almost thirty years of drug addiction, the book, Imagine Me!, is proof that the road that looks like a dead-end can turn the corner to new life. As Carolyn says, "I'm...
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Oct.13.2012
Professional Photographer/Tennis Blogger Craig Doyle joins Phil to discuss recreational drug use on the ATP/WTA Tours, the Shanghai Open and highlight professional tennis players Varvara Lepchenko and Kevin Anderson.
To listen to the program from the site please click the link provided below...
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May.01.2012
Well, as I write Diary of a Confirmed Spinster, the follow up to Threshold Girl I wonder if I am being too harsh on Edith Nicholson, the heroine of the Spinster story, as I make her an opium addict.
My husband's great Aunt Edie was a prim and proper Presbyterian,...
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Mar.20.2012
In 1973 I was the art director of Gallery magazine. I was getting into a little flirtatious thing with the receptionist. She'd come into my office and we'd grapple around a bit but we couldn't properly pound it out because my office door wouldn't close. So we made a fuckdate.
I went to the...
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Nov.09.2011
I have on hand an ad for Lydia Pinkham’s vegetable tonic, which sold in the bazillions of bottles in the Victorian era and which contained the dreaded alcohol. The ad in question says that a young woman's health depends on taking the tonic, as well as getting lots of fresh air, good sleep, and...
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Aug.18.2011
Seventy Nine Years Late
While the plane was circling the Bay and Beckett was supposed to be in his seat, he was in fact in the bathroom. He ignored the stewardess outside rapping on the door, telling him to return to his seat.
What difference was it going to make? If the plane folded on...
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Jun.27.2011
At BBC Pebble Mill TV Studios, playing live on a Fashion show hosted by Toyah Wilcox (1979)
“Will you look at her!” a model slinks past me and Mulligan. We’re both grinning like ferrets.
I’m really missing Symiane. I’m definitely missing some parts of her more than others.
“Makes you wish you had...
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May.27.2011
There are a number of out of the way places that Beckett can choose to pass the night before his meeting with Posh William out in the wilds of Berkshire.
He can hide in a multiplex twenty-four hour cinema in Leicester Square, or in some hole in the wall restaurant in nearby China Town, or then...
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