I am not good at updating this site…but what’s the saying? Late is better than never?
In that spirit…here’s an E! Channel clip from back in October. Enjoy.
What u doing this Sunday, eh? If you’re in Los Angeles or anywhere within a hundred mile radius, you better be coming to see me at the West Hollywood Book Fair. I am exhibiting between 12PM (that’s noon) and 3PM, at the West Hollywood Writes tent. Or, alternatively, I might be at the Barnes & Noble tent. Don’t worry; they’re nearby each other. Come buy SIP, SUN & SNOW… or buy all three.
ALSO make sure and come by my workshop 3:30-5PM, “A Sense of Place.” It is FREE and in it, I will tell you exactly how to get out of your office job and have the coolest/funnest/travelingest job in the world. Yes, I’ll even tell you how to get to the point where you can make up your own words. (It takes years and lots of skillz, but it can be done.)
Here’s the link to the Fair. (In case you’re wondering, the worshop is in the Writing Room.)
Also, Orbitz blogged about it because they are RAD.
And, That Morning Show also plugged it because they are seeming to be pretty rad too!
I hope to see you there!
I was an on-camera travel expert on That Morning Show on E! Channel this past Thursday October 1st. Do I have a clip? NOT YET! But am working on it. In the meantime here is the link to the show site mentioning me.
I talked about wine country travel. In particular, Napa, Paso Robles and the wonderful Eastern Canadian province of Quebec. I didn’t get to talk about nearly as much as I wanted to, so I also gave ‘em a whole supplemental blog with hotel picks and wineries and whatnot. Hopefully they will post.
I will have a clip soon. Don’t u worry…
I wrote the Viceroy section only. Wish I could have done more. This package looks beautiful and reads really well too. Brides sets the standard for wedding magazines.
(Teaser: I just finished another three sections for an upcoming Brides travel section which will go unnamed for now…stay tuned for more details.)
Arthur Frommer Girlfriend Getaways, women’s travel mag and upscale Budget Traveler offshoot, published a “Great Escapes” getaway piece I wrote on San Miguel de Allende. Should be on newsstands this month.
(Disclaimer: My version suggested a free tour of historic churches, ending in the town square. NOT a once-a-week paid walking tour of private homes. I think a new editor slipped that in there so she could feel she’d made her mark.)
At last, I’m posting the PDFs received in the past month. For road trippers, a piece on California’s best coastal parks (LA to SF only). Published in local LA magazine Whole Life Times.
Thanks to my editor Abigail for giving me the slot at the 11th hour, so I could alert LA locals to the parks’ budgetary situation and showcase some of the landmarks on the closure list. All of them are still in danger of closing within the next couple of years, thanks to the incompetent machinations of our state government & bureaucracy.
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.