I love New York.  I’m currently sitting in the hotel lounge, which overlooks Central Park and Columbus Circle, and enjoying a really lovely cup of hot chocolate.  What a nice way to unwind.  Yesterday, business meetings—and today, I went over to the … [Read more...]

I have to run to the book signing in a couple of minutes, but here’s a link to an interview about NYX with editor John Barber, artist Kalman Andrasofszky, and myself. … [Read more...]

I’m at the Romantic Times convention in Pittsburgh.  Lots of good stories, and lots of pictures, which I’ll load when I get home.  That’s not the reason I’m updating, though.  This is. Check out the third paragraph, my peeps.  More … [Read more...]

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and (it) will be lost. The world will not … [Read more...]

I’ll be doing an anthology with Ace Books called INKED, set for a tentative release in January 2010.  Other authors will include Yasmine Galenorn, Eileen Wilks, and Karen Chance.  My novella will feature Maxine Kiss, from my new Urban Fantasy series (first book, … [Read more...]

I found this at the Forest Rogers blog, which is a really lovely site to visit, with an astonishing collection of art that a person could just stare at for hours, wondering the entire time, “How did she do that?” A dream (with which I suspect many of us could … [Read more...]

Not for me, but for Barbara Vey, Contributing Editor of Publishers Weekly. Now, there’s a story behind all this, and the brief version is this: A couple years ago, I was invited to participate in the Levy Book Cruise—a week-long adventure where readers and authors … [Read more...]

Hardly an update, but just a passing wave.  And this very cool story: A dolphin swam up to two distressed whales that appeared headed for death in a beach stranding in New Zealand and guided them to safety, witnesses said Wednesday. … [Read more...]

Mulder: This is all wrong, Scully. This is not how the story is supposed to end. Scully: What do you mean? Mulder: Dr. Frankenstein pays for his evil ambitions, yes. But the monster’s supposed to escape to go search for his bride. Scully: There’s not going to be … [Read more...]

“In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.” - Yevgeny Yevtushenko About a foot of snow, and it’s still coming down.  What you see below are the remains of the old pear tree, and … [Read more...]