this is a self-portrait painted by my sweet pea.(yes, i’m showing off again!) she said she messedup the face with perhaps too much rouge accent(ha!) and covered her eyes. also, she had a bluehair band and then messed up on that so she putan “orange hat” on her head. not sure if is in theliteral [...]
Category Archives: publicity
in which cindy saves the publishing industry…
March 5, 2009 – 4:02 am
by going bonkers on book purchases.that’s right. i’ve decided to buy books aspresents for both adults and bubs (and boy,there are a lot of bub parties! in fact, we callit “birthday season”) as much as possible.and also books for myself. they are considered“research” and a tax write off. honest!i think books are the perfect gift–there’ssomething [...]
the year of the ox
January 21, 2009 – 10:03 pm
next week will herald the lunarnew year–and the year of the golden ox.it is also my year. i’ll be turning 36 inaugust. and i bet you a beligan praline you’venever had the following conversation withyour mother–which is also why i love her so!
[convo conducted in mandarin on her partand chinglish on mine.]
mom : it’s chinese [...]
six things i LOVE me me!
January 15, 2009 – 5:23 am
the beautiful, talented and hilariously funnygretchen mcneil tagged me for a me me!fyi, gretchen recently landed an agentafter only TWO weeks of querying, and noless than FIVE vied for her attention.her young adult novel takes her heroine fromthe states back to ireland, weaving in themyth and folklore of that country.wait for it to go to [...]
ARC love!
January 6, 2009 – 10:40 pm
i’m not a very spontaneous person.so it’s indicative of how excited i was whenvirginia told me ARCs were on the way,that i immediately hopped onto the blogand decided to give one away. didn’t thinkit through really.
and now we’ve got to wait a week beforei can choose the winners! i guess i gave itso much time [...]