Feb 13, 2012 | A Day In My Life
My days are very different now than they were a year ago. Back then, I worked as a low-grade sous chef at my uncle’s Albuquerque restaurant. Now I’m using my training as a pastry chef and cake artist to run Zydeco Cakes, one of New Orleans’ premiere bakeries. It’s a...
Feb 10, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I’m Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Sam Holland, and my day often begins in the dead of night when dispatch calls to tell me we’ve got another homicide in the District of Columbia. Middle-of the night phone calls never bothered me until recently. Since I married Nick,...
Feb 9, 2012 | A Day In My Life
“What have you been doing for the last two years?” the editor said from across his desk, looking out from over top his glasses. “As I said,” Annie replied. “I’ve been at home with my boys. I’ve freelanced occasionally, tried to keep my fingers in the business.” And...
Feb 7, 2012 | A Day In My Life
If I hadn’t lost my job at The Dunston Herald, I’d still be writing articles about church bazaars and Girl Scout cookie sales. Now, instead, I get to read for a living. Who wouldn’t rather do that? As an intern at A Novel Idea, I’m part of a thriving literary agency...
Feb 6, 2012 | A Day In My Life
About a decade ago, I decided that my writing career was never going to take off as long as I watched network TV. I figured if I no longer got sucked into that nightly routine, I’d have up to an additional twenty hours a week to write. It worked! Hey, Mikey! But then...
Feb 3, 2012 | A Day In My Life
Q. Is any part of “THE DARK ROSE” autobiographical, or is it wholly imagined? A. Of course parts of me leak into my characters. I can only tell you about the aspects I am conscious of. I’m sure there are more. As one British reviewer recently told me,...
