July 13, 2015

Castration, Sex And Studs, and Chicken Cacciatore. My Second Newsletter

Castration, sex and studs, chicken cacciatore, and advice on writing. Those are a few of the articles that are in my newsletter.

This is my second newsletter in ten years. I’m on a roll, as you can see. If you are feeling dare devilly (Did I just make up a word? “devilly” is not a word in the dictionary, I don’t think…) and want to sign up for my next newsletter, click on the link below.

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Wishing you excellent books, chocolate, and long summer days.

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Greetings from Oregon where I continue to eat too much chocolate, drink too much coffee, and daydream as if I have nothing better to do than marvel at clouds.In the last two years I have found another hobby: Gardening. I believe I may now be addicted to hanging flower baskets. This is, indeed, an odd addiction.It is amazing what goes on in a backyard when one is determined to sit in a chair and not think. Squirrels chase each other. Hummingbirds and blue birds hang out. Frogs hop. Garden snakes try to frighten me. Geese fly overhead as if they own the place. Late at night, even though I live smack in the middle of suburbia, I even hear coyotes “singing.”

On another topic…This is my second newsletter since I sold my first book, Julia’s Chocolates, in 2005. Two newsletters in ten years. I’m on a roll.

So what’s in it?  Read an article where I talk about my childhood dog, Frisky, who regularly took off like a lightning rod and tried to eat other dogs. His punishment? Castration.

I also discuss how I love writing romance scenes in a USA Today article with this line in it, “It’s Not About The Sex, It’s About The Stud.”

There are photos of hellfire crowns, book club ladies who like their wine, and a brownie in the shape of a heart. I had to eat it. The brownie, not the hellfire crowns, just to be clear.

I have included my interviews with wonderful bestselling authors Liane Moriarty, of The Husband’s Secret; Graeme Simsion, of The Rosie Project; Mary Kubica of The Good Girl; and Pam Jenoff of The Winter Guest.

I’ve also included snippets of books that I have already written and edited twelve times. Each.

I will not tell you that in writing every single one of my books I have wanted to toss my computer and head to the wilds of Alaska where I would settle down in a cabin, by myself, and count polar bears. Which would have been more relaxing.

No, I won’t say that at all. I will pretend I am a rational and sane author who writes her books with a cup of tea nearby (I hate tea), her home completely clean (How funny!), her hair washed (takes sooo much time), her makeup on (must I?), a joyous tune in her calm heart.

Ha.

Happy day to all of you.

Of a Delusional and Daydreaming Writer

I was invited to make a “Gather Your Hellfire Crown” with a group of women in Portland recently.

The term “Gather Your Hellfire” comes from my book The First Day Of The Rest of My Life. As you can see HERE, we had a fiery good time.

KC, The Intellectual Cat
I write, which means I spend a lot of time alone with my cat. She is very patient and smart, as you can tell by her glasses.
 
New diet trick! 
If you make brownies, then cut a heart out in the middle of them, the heart will lovingly take away all of the calories.

Articles I’ve Written, Thoughts I’ve Had…

These articles and blog posts are about castration, sex and studs, chicken cacciatore, and advice on writing. Not in that order, exactly. Avoid the article on Frisky, the biting dog, if you don’t want to read about his castration.

1) It’s Not About The Sex, It’s About The Stud

2) Cooking, Cancer, and Chicken Cacciatore 

3) Frisky, Castration, and Adventures 

4) For writers… a bit of advice. I wish I could call it “wise” advice, but I can’t. Take what you want, toss the rest. 

5) A Fairy Godmother And Three Wishes

Four authors, four books, one date. July 28th.
Book giveaway.

My writing gang (We are a GOOD gang, not a SCARY gang, by the way) Pam Jenoff, Mary Kubica, Kimberly Belle, and I are teaming up. Like this page and we’ll enter you into a contest to win a book…or four, if you are incredibly lucky.

Author to Author Interviews

I beg and plead and am honored to chat with some of my favorite authors. Here are a few interviews with authors I think you might love…

Liane Moriarty, author of The Husband’s Secret

Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project

Pam Jenoff, author of The Winter Guest

Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl

These are some of the more amusing comments I’ve heard over the years at book groups:“My husband is an asshole. He’s like Slick Dick in The Last Time I Was Me.”“My husband gets irritated sometimes with how much time I spend with the kids but I say to him, ‘The kids hug me and want me to read them stories but you always want to have sex. Of course I’d rather read stories.'”

“The guys from the fire department came to take care of my husband, AGAIN, but I knew they thought he was crazy. He thought he was having another heart attack. His third that week. They didn’t say it, but I heard it: My husband is anxious about his anxiety. That’s what causes his heart to beat too fast.”

“Should we take off our tops like they did in Julia’s Chocolates?”

“Pot is now legal in Oregon. Do you think we should get a joint for the next book club meeting?”

“Did you run naked by a river, Cathy, like Jeanne in The Last Time I Was Me?”

“Oh, my gosh. We finished ANOTHER bottle of wine!”

“You know that sex therapist in your book, Cathy? How did you learn all that?”

I’m happy to visit your book group if you live in the Portland, Oregon area, or we can skype or chat on speakerphone.

Excerpt from The Last Time I Was Me. On running naked along a river. Would you do this?

Excerpt from Such A Pretty Face. On being the size of a small, depressed cow…

Excerpt from Julia’s Chocolates. On Your Hormones and You: Taking Over, Taking Cover, Taking Charge Psychic Night

Excerpt from A Different Kind of Normal. On herbs, spices, and having witches in the family

A final thought….Wishing you love, joy, peace, chocolate, and excellent books.

 

Contact me to chat
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My new novel, My Very Best Friend, is out July 28th. Here are a few hints about the story: Two best friends. One is a time travel romance writer living like a hermit on an island off the coast of Washington. She has no romance in her life. She gets the irony of that. The other best friend is missing. Set in Scotland. Mysterious disappearance of a priest. Man in a kilt. A special garden. A stone cottage. A grandma with the Scottish Second Sight. Crazy activities with a new group of friends including lingerie bike riding at night. Love. I hope you like it.

            

Beach Season has recently been reissued! My story,June’s Lace, is about a wedding dress designer who lives on the Oregon coast and makes bold, wild, colorful, artistic wedding gowns. June used to be an attorney, and she used to be married. She doesn’t miss either one…until a country song writer moves in next door.

Read chapters one and twohere.

            

                    
                    
                    
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