Category Archives: books

happy new year!

Happy New Year to all my favorite readers—that means you. Thanks so much for keeping up with the blog since it started and for making 2010 definitely a year of trying new things. Since starting a new (momentarily temporary, but hopefully permanent) job, it’s been a little tricky getting the photo shoot in. I’ll probably...

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the highs and lows of fashion

Went into San Francisco today to have lunch with a good high school friend of mine and meet his girlfriend for brunch. Oh, Cafe de la Presse, how I love your pain perdu! I had already planned the perfect outfit for a day in the city, despite Mr. D’s misgivings about the bold graphic-ness of...

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the space between

No photos today, though some amazing news! My novel, Interstice made it through to the semifinals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, one out of 50 of the original 5,000 entries in the General Fiction category. As I woke up today a little under the weather, I was not pessimistic about making it to the...

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global japan, part two

In November 2008, I took it upon myself to join National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Basically, you pledge to work on your novel, writing at least 50,000 words by midnight November 30th. This year, I entered that novel (after much ignoring then harried revision) in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards (ABNA). So far, I’ve...

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