Thanks be to Charyn Pfeuffer, fellow traveler, bon savante and opinionated editorialist. She shouted out SUN and me on HotelChatter this week, and gave some of my picks for off-the-beaten path California hotels…the ones I can’t write about on Orbitz because they are too out-of-the-way or not in season yet. All Nor Cal. Check it out.
Elina Fuhrman is one of my favorite people in all the world, and naturally I’m super-duper proud that her daughter Isabelle Fuhrman is the most-searched term on Yahoo today, thanks to her oh-so-creepy performance in the thriller Orphan.
Regardless of whether you like scary movies or not (I don’t), it’s so easy to tell that Isabelle is a star in the making. And her family’s making sure she stays sweet and down-to-earth, regardless of paparazzi stalking and red carpet moments with Robert Downey Jr. (Yes, I’m jealous.)
Check out Isabelle’s awesome press here and here , and see the Access Hollywood clip here.
I will be taking Elina on a much-needed spa getaway tomorrow–woot!! All the rest of y’all…go see Orphan rightnow!!
I wrote an essay on the dramz of writing SIP, SUN, and SNOW for beatrice.com, the blog owned by Ron Hogan (editor of MediaBistro by day, literary blogger by nite). Here it be.
This is a great blog for all bookworms, intellectual snobs, and people too ADD to watch television. I have therefore added it to my blog roll, so we can keep up w/Ron’s author friends without having to constantly ponder, “Okay, I know that blog is named after a woman, but what is it again?? Hm…”
More or less. I did not keep exact track. However, I spent nearly the entire day wrestling with Adobe and Wordpress and ye old WWW, with the result that my Works page is now a great deal more filled out than before. Browse around, see if you find anything good.
So…the very first post for my new “Lena Press” category (something which I didn’t worry much about before, being always the writer & never the subject)…
My friend and colleague Doc Lawrence published this picture of me, taken on a recent sojourn to Jalisco, in several of his columns printed around Atlanta, Augusta, and various other Southern cities. He says I will soon be “a household name in Dixie.” Somehow I think this is a bit of an exaggeration…but still I am so flattered! Thanks Doc!
Just turned in copy for my Away Networks “Top 20 All-Inclusives” package. Editor says it will be ready to go live in a few weeks–we will all try to rush it as much as possible in time for summer. I will post links as soon as they are available.