Dec 15, 2011 | A Day In My Life
My protagonist, Darla Pettistone, is a savvy businesswoman, even though Pettistone’s Fine Books (the bookshop she inherited from her late Great-Aunt Dee) is her first attempt at entrepreneurship. And so she communicates and stays organized like many of us do these...
Dec 14, 2011 | A Day In My Life
We interrupt our regularly scheduled “a day in the life of” to bring you this special feature. Stephanie Plum is in post production right now, but stepping in for her is her creator, Janet Evanovich, who agreed to answer a few questions. Are there times when you...
Dec 13, 2011 | A Day In My Life
How often do people get to play in the dirt for a living? Luckily, I’m one of those people, and I have to admit the dirtier the job the better. I’m a landscape designer, and my company, Taken by Surprise, Garden Designs, specializes in one-day backyard makeovers. On a...
Dec 12, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Sometimes my day starts in the middle of the night… with murder. So far, I haven’t been the victim or the perpetrator, but I have experienced the occasional brush with pre-dawn homicide since moving back to my little hometown of Chatterley Heights, Maryland. I’m...
Dec 9, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Beep, beep, beep… I jump out of bed, silence the alarm, and grab my smart phone from the dresser. I’m an agent. Not a secret agent, not a double agent, but a real estate agent. Showings? Listings? Offers? No matter what the morning, this Realtor’s ready to find the...
Dec 8, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Oh, good glory in the morning! How did it get to be the middle of December so quickly? Between holding court five days a week—too many miscreants celebrating early with too much booze, not to mention all those holiday shoppers who use their 5-finger discounts instead...
