With apologies to Alice Sebold, I have to admit that I have not read The Lovely Bones.  My reading tends to be patchy at best–I usually get around to bestsellers after everyone else on the planet has read them.  But I think I deliberately avoided The Lovely Bones, in print and film, because, although my [...]

I’ve turned over a new leaf–really, I promise.  Finding the right time to get back on a horse–or a blog–when you’ve fallen off is always difficult.  I kept waiting for the perfect post, which somehow never quite materialized.  But having spent a good bit of time the last few months updating the web page (although [...]

After such a long and unplanned absence from these posts, I thought it only fitting to mark the Winter Solstice, the tipping point between the old year and the new, by wishing that we could all manage the sort of peace and contentment displayed by Hallie (our German shepherd) and Jolly (our tuxedo cat) in [...]

A red letter day today! I have my complete tour schedule, and the cover proofs for the book arrived in the morning mail. The book looks fabulous, and I’m very excited about seeing old friends and meeting new ones. I’ll be signing in Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Phoenix, Tucson, Iowa City, [...]

Yes, I’m back from England, and I promise I will take up where I left off writing about my trip, even if after the fact, but for now I hope readers will forgive a momentary American digression (and the word play.  Couldn’t resist.)
Yesterday was the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby, and Derby day is [...]

Just wanted to say thanks to all those who have posted and sent emails the last couple of months.  I’ve been writing like a mad person since October finishing Where Memories Lie, which is now in the very capable hands of my editor at William Morrow.  Not that I wasn’t writing before that, it’s just [...]

I refuse to use the word blog, partly out of contrariness, partly because I suspect it will be horribly dated sometime in the near future. And the idea that anyone would want to read what I have to say on the most random of subjects strikes me as a great conceit, but then we [...]