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The East End of London has such a colourful and rich history but not everyone sees past the glorious edifice of Canary Wharf and the new Docklands. It was the wonderful Jennifer Worth who recently raised the East End’s profile, author of ‘Call the Midwife’. The full flavour of the poverty ridden streets and plight of the communities in the post war years was brought to...
Love your life...it's yours! Make the best of it, be thankful for it and live it to the fullest every single day!
I'm very excited to be attending the Albany Children's Book Festival this upcoming Saturday, April 27th. What's not to love? Tons of readers, writers, and books all in one location. AND THEY'LL HAVE ADVANCE COPIES OF THE LOST PRINCESS (MERMAID TALES #5) Hope I get to see you there. I'll be talking in room 1 at 10:30. ...
196 reserved seats and a wait list for my talk and book signing on 4/18 in Naples, Florida! Held at a private club in Port Royal, this event was a benefit for the Friends of the Collier County Library. Fabulous questions, tremendous enthusiasm. Collier County loves "Miss Dreamsville"! This means a lot to me since, after all, it's the setting for the novel! I couldn't be more...
The spectacularly beautiful island of Anguilla is the backdrop for one of the most exciting book festivals in the region. May 22 - 26 sees me there, along with Atria publisher Judith Curr, where we'll actually do some work and have fun at the same time. Counting down!
‘Ours is the biggest book club in the world,’ my host says. ‘We think so, anyway.’This is my second speaking engagement at The Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida. The first was on Thursday 7th February in the Daniels Pavilion to a sold out house of 282. On the following Saturday, the auditorium is at around half capacity. However, as this is the Hayes...
I'm on deadline for my third novel and I just realized -- just realized -- why I write books.Huh.I write books because . . . life is messy. And I write stories that wade into that mess. Stories about how we make a mess of our lives . . . or someone else messes up or lives . . .and yet, there is still hope.There is redemption.There is the reality of "But God . . . " in the midst...
I told my youngest son I'd be talking with Brownies today. He said, "You mean the kind you eat?" I said, "No, the girl scout kind." I had fun showing the group of Brownies my old Brownie and Girl Scout uniform. We had a good time with shark trivia and they asked great questions about Danger in the Deep Blue Sea, which they'd all read. Then I read to them from my manuscript...
Writing has, until recently, been something I fitted in around 'proper' work. I held down a full-time job and still managed to bang out four novels and a few plays. Nothing so amazing in that. If you're a writer you just sit down and get on with it whenever you can. It's people who describe themselves as 'aspiring writers' or 'budding writers' who always moan about never...
He was my childhood sweetheart, from the age of 7 or 8. It wasn’t love at first sight, rather a passion slowly brewed, simmered over a low-burning flame. He hid in my diaries and my journals, but he was the secret I never kept.
No, no.
My mother, who has since sprouted angel’s wings, found him tucked covertly beneath my Sealy, while I wait for our next encounter. She was...
We tend to think of the wartime era, 1939-1945, as drab and unvaried, full of dour uniforms and ungainly, old-maid underwear - “passion-killers” - such as our grannies wear. But it was during these years that women were at their most resourceful and many used their ingenuity in the most astonishing of ways; eyebrow pencil for drawing seams down bare legs, barrage balloon...
Hi there!
I’m so excited about my latest book, The Power Trip… the reviews it’s received from critics and readers worldwide has been amazing. I truly have the greatest readers, and am tremendously grateful for them making The Power Trip an international bestseller.
I’m so proud of this book – it’s a bit of a departure from my other books… I like to think of it...
<p style="text-align: justify;">On March 10th I made my second trip to speak at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for Professor Fernando Reimers' Masters Class. It was an amazing experience to tell such a high ranking class about my journey as both an author and educator. My key speaking points were how I landed my book deal, Marvelous World University, and...
Two wonderful book events are coming up, and I hope you can join me:
The Anguilla Literary Festival on the gorgeous island of Anguilla, from May 23 to 26, and
A book reading in the Winnetka, Chicago bookstore The Book Stall, on June 10. This will be a luncheon reading for the Women Writers Series.
From the Caribbean to the Windy City -- although both will be warm by then...
Did you ever look at something but not really see it? That was my relationship with birds for the longest time. I knew the basics. I could tell a robin from a crow from a blue jay, but that was about it. I longed to know more, but never seemed to have the time (or take the time) to learn. When my husband and I bought our first house, I plunked a monstrosity of a bird house...
Rewriting this new book due out next spring. It's gonna be fucking epic. You'll love these characters. Can't wait to get it out on shelves.
That
was the headline for an e-mail I received last week . . . "Why wait?"
The message was from Diana, and with her permission--and her mother's--I
give it to you below.
Dear Marion,
I am a young writer, twelve years old. I plan to become a author
in the future, but why wait? So over the past years I have been
writing. I have a book that I feel confident in. I have...
Whoever
it was who said "Ninety percent of the pleasure of travel is in
anticipation and the other ten percent is in recollection" had hold of a
disheartening truth.
I'm just back from a week in beautiful Costa Rica and the deepest discovery I made is that I'm allergic to the entire place.
I've
long known I have a slight allergic reaction to mold. In Minnesota my
head gets a...
In April of this year, Simon & Schuster have decided to republish one of my earlier books, ‘Connie of Kettle Street’. The novel is freshly titled as ‘Cockney Orphan’. The book has a new cover too, so I thought it best to let my readers know well in advance of these plans. However, if you’ve not read ‘Connie of Kettle Street’, then ‘Cockney Orphan’ might be...
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