Lani Diane Rich arrived Friday night and I’d love to tell you we did sophisticated, publisher author stuff, but I’d walked all over NYC all day, and she’d been doing the editor/agent thing, so we just vegged at the apartment. The highlight of the evening was when we googled for the Ugliest Dog Contest [...]

My day started with a film crew in the apartment. This place is so colorful and funky that film scouts keep coming through–three since I’ve been here–and today a whole crew came through and they’ve decided that this is the place for the apartment their hero rents. One of them said, “This looks [...]

This is probably going to be a huge Duh for the rest of you but I finally figured out the problem with Zelda’s negative motivation: It’s negative.
As you may remember, Zelda didn’t want to go to Rosemore, but Rose lures her in and then keeps her with the promise of helping her find [...]

Mollie said, “There’d better be an On the Road post with my name on it by tomorrow morning.” It’s because Bob had one. Sibling rivalry.
So I spent a gorgeous day in New York with my brilliant and beautiful daughter. We had big plans that pretty much became talk all [...]

I’m sitting in the apartment with Bob, and we’ve both got computers going. It’s sad really. Every now and then he snickers and reads something to me. About nuns.
We walked through the village and down into Soho to the Apple store because he woke up and stepped on his power cord [...]

I was really looking forward to this trip, a week in NYC, no business to speak of, a lot of walking through galleries and around the West Village which I love. Then the phone rang this afternoon and woke me out of a deep sleep and I leapt to my feet and [...]

That’s the title of an essay I’m working on. Well, actually it’s a paper and I have to deliver it at a conference fairly shortly. My thesis is that one of the most powerful aspects of the romance novel is the community that it makes in the reader’s mind. [...]

I’m sitting in the Miami airport, having just come from a literary festival in support of a terrific library in Broward County. The event was beautifully run and I met lovely people. Many of them asked about Bob, especially what he looks like. I don’t know, he looks like Bob. This [...]

Wow.
I had no idea. But if I ever kill Bob, his body will never be found.
Sorry to be a tease. Here’s the full story of the story:
My editor e-mailed me and said, “We’d like to put a short story or two on the website as a teaser for when Agnes comes out. [...]

Once again I have been distracted from You Again by something that needs to be done right away: a short story. Don’t ask.
Here’s the tasteless part: While I am still trying to figure out the plot and structure of this sucker, I am confounded by a plot point. The story is about [...]