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It's no secret that I adore teaching at UCLA. Teaching online is electric for me. I love it (and I won UCLA Extension's very first...

Elizabeth Rosner ( Blue Nude --which is incredible) is one of my favorite writers on the planet. This is a quote from her that I just love: ...

My friend, the fantastic writer, rock and roller and cat afficiando Clea Simon's newest book, Cries and Whiskers (pre-order it now!) jus...

I was on the Today Show twice! I do have a nice picture of the green room (which isn't green, by the way) to post but I can't find ...

I admit I thrive on chaos. First, everyone has to admire the sweater I knit! It's actually this deep, dark hazy blue and if you think t...

I officially started a new novel today. As soon as I did I realized I didn't really have a clue how to do it. You'd think I would, a...

Clea Simon (she has a great blog, cats, crime and rock and roll ) asked a great question about when you know a book is done. For me, it usu...

What's this? I've been tagged! This is from my friend Cindy, who has two wonderful blogs, Conversations with Famous Writers and Hell...

Sigh. I think the photo says it all. Beloved agent is thrilled with the novel. Friends are thrilled. Husband is thrilled. But there is still...

One of the most wonderful things about teaching at UCLA is that every once in a while I become friends with one of my students. The whole te...

Grace Paley's friend and protoge, Leora Skolkin-Smith has an absolutely gorgeous tribute to her in today's Washington Post. You hav...

It’s her 9 th novel, and M. J. Rose’s The Reincarnationist is being showered with accolades. Starred Library Journal , Starred Publisher’s...

It's here! The brand new Dame magazine, and I'm writing for them about books. Please come and take a look. Meant to smart, snappy, ...

It's fever dream time. I'm waiting to hear from my incredibly wonderful literary agent about my just-born novel, Traveling Angels . ...

Yes my office is chaos. (I have to admit this is an old photo. The exercise machines are gone, and the computer screen is now flat screen, w...

Finishing a novel is both exhilarating and unsettling. You've spent three or so years with these characters you've come to know righ...

First the big news for me. I finished my novel, which is called Traveling Angels. This is incredible because it has taken me almost four ye...

I admit, I love reading about seekers. I love it when people chuck their workaday lives and go live in Nepal, or when they leave NYC to live...

For every novelist I know, the brass ring is getting a movie out of your novel. I’ve had options for four of my novels, and at one point, I ...

There is always a point in writing a novel or script, when, just like Dante, you are lost in a dark, tangled wood (hopefully it isn't th...

One of the things that tickles me the most in the world is that I get to read for a living. How wonderful is that! When I read as a critic, ...

Right now, I'm finishing the revisions of my novel, which is called Traveling Angels . I feel like I am caught in a hallucination. I wor...

I love writing. I really do. Even when the writing is going so terribly that I start considering a career in air conditioning repair, I stil...

I admit it. Besides eating way more chocolate than is good for me and being unable to resist complicated looking earrings, I am a book junky...

I wanted to tell everyone about two fantastic anthologies, I'm so proud to be included in The first is The Other Woman , edited by Victo...

I can see where this is going to get addictive. I wanted to mention that I am also a prize-winning senior writing instructor at UCLA Extenst...

I must admit I'm new to blogging, but here's where I can wax rhapsodic about writing (or whine), offer tips, tell you what I'm u...