A nice surprise awaited me when I got home tonight, thanks to my neighbour who must have met the FedEx deliverer. Usually they just ring the doorbell that doesn’t work and then leave. It’s always a lovely feeling to open a box full of your books. Stella’s lovely cover looks good in print, too. I…
Category: Kit Marlowe
Kit Marlowe Speaks / TOF: Impromptu
Kit Marlowe makes a visit over at JoJo’s Book Corner today where she reads from The Mangrove Legacy and gives away prizes including an exclusive mug! This is all part of the building excitement for Authors After Dark where Kit and I and a whole host of lovely writers will be converging on Philadelphia for…
Things to Celebrate
UPDATE: I’ll be reading as the narrator for the College of Saint Rose Women’s Initiative’s presentation of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues Saturday night at 7pm. The show plays on Sunday at 3pm with my fabulous colleague and friend Angela Ledford as narrator. Tickets benefit Equinox. Girls Next Door will be performing at the interval….
Snow Day
An official snow day: a rarity! It’s eerily quiet around here. The only birds to be seen are the crows. The usually-busy street below my eyrie has only the occasional car. The drummer downstairs, however, is home. It was snowing quite hard yesterday morning as I walked to campus. During the short walk, here’s how…
Tuesday’s Overlooked Film: The Knack…and How to Get It
Before I get to the main event, some links to share: I am the Tuesday Talking Teaser over at JoJo’s Book Corner, answering questions and reading from Pelzmantel, and Kit Marlowe is the featured blogger today over at the Noble Romance authors’ blog, writing about her inspiration, P. G. Wodehouse. See all of Tuesday’s Overlooked…
How I Came to Write this Book
I’m hosted over at Patti Abbott’s blog where I reveal: “How I Came To Write This Book” How I Came to Write this Book, K. A. Laity THE MANGROVE LEGACY Kit Marlowe, Tease Publishing, Dec 2010, ISBN 9781607671275, $5.99 In 2002, I moved to Houston, Texas with my husband. I hadn’t quite got around to…
BitchBuzz: World Domination (and bonus fez)
For my latest column, I channel EL Wisty: A Simple Guide to World Domination By K.A. Laity Some people use the holidays to give gifts, bond with families and eat too much. These people will never control the globe. Lots of people have a good string of days off this time of year when they…
BitchBuzz and a Contest
Yes, up to my usual anti-social behavior in my column this week: No Ho-Ho Holiday Films! By K.A. Laity When you’ve seen too many cheery reindeer, children singing and hearts growing three sizes, it’s time to strike back. I know there are many who can’t wait to pull out that pile of Christmas DVDs every…
The Mangrove Legacy ON SALE NOW!
Kit Marlowe‘s novel The Mangrove Legacy is out! For sale now at All Romance eBooks — just $5.99. Two English girls, pirates, kidnappers, orphans, disguises, a ghost, interesting facts about insects, cheese, the King of Naples and at least one improving book:This ain’t your mama’s Gothic! Yes, very pleased to have this out. Thanks for…
Bits and Bobs
Over at Patti Abbott’s blog, you can read the final installment of La Ronde, the round robin story in which I took part. The fun of these things is that they take a lot of unexpected twists and that’s certainly the case here. Vastly entertaining. Perhaps the strangest news story regarding wombats ever… It’s possible…