What's new in the Red Room
Jun.11.2008 - 7:28 am
Chicklitfest '08
I'm working on a proposal for my next two chicklit books, thus I plan to have a big bowl of estrogen for breakfast.
Jun.11.2008 - 7:28 am
"The Mourning Door"
The Mourning Door
by Elizabeth Graver
The first thing she finds is a hand. In the beginning, she thinks it's a tangle of sheet or a wadded sock caught between the mattress cover and the mattress, a bump the size of a walnut but softer, more yielding. She feels it as she's lying, lazing, in bed....
Jun.11.2008 - 7:26 am
The Challenge and Opportunity of Autism
A few weeks ago, Dianna Heitz of Northwestern University's Medill School drove up to film me for a story on Asperger's. She's got a brother on the spectrum, so she had a personal stake in the story, and she did a really nice job.
It's called The Challenge and Opportunity of Autism
http://news....
Jun.11.2008 - 7:15 am
"May I See Your Permission Slip, Senora?"
by Ericka Lutz
Guess who royally blew it? Guess who had two tickets booked to Guadalajara next week? Guess who writes books and articles and serves as an "expert" on traveling with kids? Guess who forgot the crucial detail that a parent traveling solo with a minor child to Mexico needs a notarized...
Jun.11.2008 - 7:08 am
The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
John Laroche is a sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth, has the posture of al dente spaghetti and the nervous intensity of someone who wins a lot of video games. He is also an orchid thief, who, along with three Seminole Indians, was arrested with rare orchids...
Jun.11.2008 - 6:52 am
SMOKE & MIRRORS
From Publishers Weekly Winter Massey, former deputy U.S. marshal, tangles with an old enemy in Miller's (UPSIDE DOWN) latest intense thriller. After the shooting of an African-American teen in Tunica County, MS., Sheriff Brad Barnett suspects it's a hunting-related accident until he spots one of...
Jun.11.2008 - 6:39 am
TOO FAR GONE
Alexa Keen is the best the FBI has to offer, a special agent who can achieve the impossible: finding victims of abduction before they can be killed. Casey LePointe West is heiress to one of the greatest fortunes in America. Now, as Hurricane Katrina roars toward New Orleans, these two women are...
Jun.11.2008 - 6:32 am
SIDE BY SIDE
Winter Massey is a former U.S. marshal who has made too many enemies on both sides of the law. Lucy Dockery is a judge’s daughter who’s never had to fight for anything in her life. But now Lucy and her young son have been kidnapped and sentenced to die–unless her father agrees to set a vicious...
Jun.11.2008 - 6:32 am
What Has Mattered
When I was little, cereal used to be very important to me. I wanted to eat the cereals that were advertised on the television, the cereals with the marshmallows and the colors and letters and the sugar. I wanted to eat the cereals that had cartoon character mascots and prizes inside. I wanted to...
Jun.11.2008 - 6:32 am
Humpers, Ahoy!
It's humpy day again. Funny how these seem to roll around once a week (except when I forget to notice them). Today's Hump Day Question is about social networking and the like. Prompted to hunt down URLS and such by my UK publisher, I dusted off my Shelfari and Twitter accounts, and made them...
