Monthly Archives: June 2008

Guest blogger: Shari Anton

Rolling With The Punches If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. Okay, so that’s a cliché, but true. For example, the other day I was merrily typing away when my keyboard went poof. No loud sounds, no smoke, no warning. … Continue reading

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Exercising

I am writing this blog from my sister’s house, with open suitcases ready to be packed for my family’s big flight to Australia all around me. Tomorrow we leave South Africa on a big adventure, and I’m looking forward to … Continue reading

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Like Tina Turner

Though we hate it, we decided at Magical not to review books of our good friends. Too many people know who our friends are, and our reviews will be tainted. Karin Tabke, a very good friend of ours, has two … Continue reading

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Bad Taste In My Mouth

This past weekend I was in Schaumburg, Illinois attending an Authorfest. It was very interesting, but that isn’t what I want to talk about today. I met up with an author who related some pretty nasty experiences she had with … Continue reading

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The Week Ahead with Shari Anton

Shari Anton is a chapter member of Liz Kreger and mine, and at our meetings she shares her advice and her wisecracks. She’ll be guest blogging this Thursday, and we’re lucky to have her. Her medeival romances garner prizes, praise, … Continue reading

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Review – The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen

The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen Publisher: Bantam Books ISBN: 9780553805499 Josey Carrini has devoted herself to her wealthy, narcissist mother to make up for the brat she was in her childhood before her beloved father died when she … Continue reading

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Letting Go

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there’s usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you’re going to get it. When you pose questions you don’t have … Continue reading

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Guest Blogger, Jess Riley!

Driving Sideways has been out for three weeks now, and I still can’t explain how surreal this feels. We sold the book to HarperCollins in December of 2005, and Random House released it in 2008. There were months tucked in … Continue reading

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The Perfect Fit

I think it was all those leather jackets in Edie’s post yesterday but today, on a whim when I had ten minutes to spare between picking up the car from the garage and fetching the kids from school, I popped … Continue reading

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What’s sexy to you?

I was talking to someone about men I think are sexy — Gerard Butler, Alan Rickman and Antonio Banderas — and I realized their voices do it for me. Listening to them turns me into a warm puddle. Just thinking … Continue reading

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