24 hours before I leave France, and I thought those of you who’ve never been here (or haven’t been here since 1987, like me) might appreciate a quick tour of the highlights of the places I’ve been. Oui? On y va! Just follow the pink coat…. First stop, this gold leaf-covered statue of Joan of  Read more »

Guess where I am. Go on…. Guess! If you said Paris, France, you would be correct! I have been at signings at the Furet Du Nord bookstore in Lille, and at the Salon du Livres (Book Fair) in Paris. It has been fantastique and I am tres fatiguer (did I mention I only speak un  Read more »

It snowed very hard in Berlin last night, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get a good picture of the huge fluffy white flakes outside my hotel window, or rooftops and streets below covered in the new snow. Maybe I need a new camera. Or to take a photography course. Probably both.  Read more »

I’m in love. I wanted this outfit so badly. Sadly, in Bavaria (which is where Munich is located) most, if not all, shops are closed on Sunday, which is the day I spied this lovely confection in a shop window on my way to the Munich Book Show. And of course I flew to Berlin  Read more »

Guten Tag again! I am winging my way back to Germany after a fantastic trip to Poland. The signing in Krakow was amazing. Here’s a photo of the very well-respected Matras Bookshop before the signing: Here’s a photo DURING the signing… …taken by He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog, before fleeing for  Read more »

Greetings from Poland, where I am currently on the first part of my three country European book tour! So far, it couldn’t be going better, from the moment I stepped through customs at the Warsaw airport to be greeted by paparazzi, as well as many readers seeking autographs–check out the photographic proof: Note my befuddled  Read more »

Greetings from Germany! I’m writing this from beautiful Cologne, Germany, or Koln as they spell it here. I am in a hotel across from the big cathedral, where the bells go off about every five minutes or so, particular at night right as you’re about to go to sleep, which is refreshing, because who doesn’t  Read more »

I’m writing this from the Conch Flyer Restaurant at the airport in Key Restaurant (and yes, it IS just like the one where Crystal Bernard worked on the show WINGS), waiting to board my plane to Germany (well, to Miami, then to Germany) for my European book tour. I have a sinus infection (apparently caught  Read more »

This blog entry is not for the faint of heart (or stomach) and I probably shouldn’t even admit this right before I’m about to embark on a month long European book tour, leaving my girls with live-in catsitters, but here goes: I don’t know how it started, I swear. At first I thought it was  Read more »

Can you believe it’s been nearly four years since I started keeping this blog? And that in all that time, I have never posted a photo of my husband (who also prefers not to have his name mentioned) here? A lot of people have written to me to ask why He Who Shall Not Be  Read more »