I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. — Bernard Berenson In addition to being a novelist, I’m also a mom.  School started this week for my daughter, who seemed almost as happy to get on the bus as I was [...]

I love summer. I don’t mind snow (although I’d like it better if it fell everywhere except on the roads and my driveway), and the rebirth of springtime is inspiring, and autumn in New England blends crisp air and tart apples and leaves screaming with psychedelic color. In summertime the air turns sticky and sludgy, [...]

Recharged, if not refreshed, I’m back from nearly three weeks in Italy with my husband, traveling to Rome, Sicily and numerous cities in Emilia Romagna, eating pasta at least once a day (be still my heart) and gelato just about as often.  We also walked our tushies off — mostly uphill, it seemed — especially [...]

Meet Kathryn Tumen, one of five publicity assistants for Berkley and New American Library. Tell us something about yourself and your publishing house While I assist one of three associate directors of publicity at Berkley/NAL, I am the publicist for most mass market romances and a slew of the trade paperback romances that Berkley and [...]