beach reads
March 8, 2009
- You can now go out and read my latest short story FOR FREE! http://www.alongstoryshort.net/ThreeAmigos.htmlHope you enjoy it!
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July 29, 2008
- Would it be every man's dream to be paid to flirt with women? Hughie thinks he has found this dream job that starts with a cream colored card secretively given to a woman to capture her attention, curiosity, and imagination. Kathleen Tessaro takes the reader to London where the main character is the charming and attractive Hughie Venables-Smythe. Hughie is a would-be actor looking for ...
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July 24, 2008
- I always have a hard time finding beach/poolside reads. Narrow indeed is the range of reading fare that mixes well with both the sound of techno music from a deejay somewhere off to your right and the smell of tequila from the fat guy to your left.Such interferences compound another problem I have: copy editor’s disease – defined just now by me as the irksome tendency to focus not on words’ ...
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July 23, 2008
- Over the past few weeks, newspapers and magazines have been engaged in one of the more persistent rites of summer—the publication of articles focusing on “beach reads.” These articles (often just lists of beach read suggestions) tend to assume we’re all on board with the concept they promote—that is, when summer comes we only want books that are entertaining, and that don’t make us ...
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July 17, 2008
- Breaking news–Just Breathe has been selected to appear on the September Indie Next List –”Great reads from booksellers you trust.” Here’s the announcement from my publisher: mira-books-announcement-just-breathe-indie-bound Thank you, Booksense!
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June 25, 2008
- In summer, I like my reading fast and cheap and dirty. Do my own books fit the bill? Hmmm, I guess we'll see. Because this month, I'm on sale, dirt cheap. The You I Never Knew and Passing Through Paradise are near and dear to my heart because they’re my first full-length books with a contemporary setting, and they rocketed my writing off into new directions. The original publisher, ...
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June 2, 2008
- Book promotion is challenging at best, as most of you know, and having survived three days of intense book marketing, I can tell you it works, but not unless you work it. Accidental Cowgirl was barely at the galley stage by the time last year's Book Expo America, and I fear that in the crush of humanity that was last year's New York show, the mountains, and the beautiful streams of Twin Creeks ...
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May 25, 2008
- I can’t watch the footage of the horse race. You know which one I mean. No wonder I prefer to stick with fiction. It’s so much more manageable than reality. The Horsemaster’s Daughter is just hitting the stores now. There are chills and thrills in this novel, but I promise, no horses were harmed in its creation.The thing I did destroy is my Penguin Classics paperback edition of ...
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February 23, 2008
- * CALENDAR ALERT * SAVE THE DATE * WRITING IN THE GARDEN OF THE GODSField’s End Writers’ Conference 2008WHO: This year’s line-up of authors and speakers includes: Roy Blount, Jr. (keynote speaker), Stephanie Kallos (opening speaker), Knute Berger, Alice Acheson, Lyall Bush, Laura Kalpakian, Thomas Kohnstamm, Rosina Lippi aka Sara Donati, Jennifer Louden, Nancy Pagh, George Shannon, Charley ...
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