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A gossip queen dissecting politics? A political pundit musing about sports? A romance novelist waxing poetic on music? You read it here first... see what your favorite literary personalities have to say about life beyond books.

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My Reading Chair

By Richard Lewis - December 16, 2009

When I was a boy, this was my reading chair*. It was big enough and I was small enough for me to prop my legs up, feet on the edge of the seat and knees leaning against the arms, and get lost in a book. I read for hours and hours in this chair, ignoring the breeze calling me to play at the beach or the temple banyan, ignoring whatever my boring parents were doing, ignoring my...

By Loren Rhoads - December 16, 2009

Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues has been nominated for a Black Quill Award at Dark Scribe magazine. Here's the link: http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-bqa-nominees/ And here's the listing: BEST DARK GENRE BOOK OF NON-FICTION: (Any dark genre non-fiction subject, any publisher; awarded to the author[s] or editor[s]) * Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues edited by...

Hibernating in my mind

By Jeremy Duns - December 15, 2009

I live in Stockholm, where the summer days stretch late into the night, but where in winter it starts to get dark at around 3 pm. Some days, it never seems to get light at all. I wake to take my children to school and it's pitch black, and over the course of the day the sky slowly turns to a twilight shade of dark grey, which it stays before turning black again. How...

'Tis the season

By Jennifer Echols - December 15, 2009

My holiday schedule is hectic in more ways than one. I am reading and writing a swath through my vacation! Do you read or write more at a certain time of year? Come share at the MTV Books Blog.

Countdown to Christmas - 11 Days

By Sandra Harper - December 15, 2009

These endless stories about holiday weight gain are just silly - everyone knows the only practical way to manage holiday stress is with peppermint bark and chocolate. In fact, it's entirely possible that Christmas cookies are preserving my mental health. If I wasn't indulging in vast quantities of sugar, how would I cope? I know from experience that on January 2nd I will be...

Christmas in Dixie...great song, great time

By Dianna Love - December 15, 2009

After being on the road pretty much all year, it's great to be home for the holidays and have time to visit with family and friends. We buy gifts for the little ones in our group, but when it comes to the adults I'm all about meeting for meals and catching up than spending a lot of time in the malls. The other treat is sitting in my writing room on rainy or chilly days and...

The Other New York City Christmas Tree

By Brian Sloan - December 15, 2009

Last Friday, about 40 blocks south of Rockefeller Center, I attended the lighting of New York City's other public Christmas tree in Washington Square Park. In a neighborhood tradition that actually pre-dates the hubbub at 30 Rock by five years (the first tree in the Village went up in 1926), I watched as a beautiful Douglas Fir standing about 30 feet tall was lit up....

Countdown to Christmas - 14 Days

By Sandra Harper - December 14, 2009

My neighbor Herb has no less than 10 Christmas teddy bears, 8 angels and 6 nutcrackers - just in his breakfast room alone! If you multiply that by five hundred you can imagine the rest of his house. Oh, and add a working Lionel train set complete with smoke. Rain or shine, recession or boom time, Herb is always jolly at this time of year. Have decided that he must have...

Daytime Confidential Poll

By Victoria Rowell - December 14, 2009

Wow, Daytime Confidential is holding a vote for Lead Soap Actress of the Decade and yours truly was nominated! The link to vote is here, http://www.daytimeconfidential.com/2009/12/09/vote-lead-soap-actress-of-the-decade and it's open till December 28. Let me know if you vote, I'd love to hear from everyone! I also just read this very interesting article on the future of...

It's official. SECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES will be a book.

By Josie Brown - December 11, 2009

It's being published by Simon & Schuster/Downtown Press, in bookstores on June 1, 2010. I'm thrilled, as you can imagine. Let's start with the fact that I'm enchanted with my editor, Megan McKeever. The excitement she and her team have for this project is an author's dream. And just think: this time next year, it will be on a bookstore shelf near you. What's the story? It is a...

Countdown to Christmas - 16 Days

By Sandra Harper - December 11, 2009

I found a gorgeous wreath at the Hollywood Farmer's Market for my front door. It's made from eucalyptus leaves and these spindly pink and black flowers that look like sea anemones. Everyone's commented on it (OK, maybe just the UPS guy and the plumber). Wreaths have been around since the days of the Druids, who believed that holly, with its evergreen branches, was a magical...

Countdown to Christmas - 18 Days

By Sandra Harper - December 10, 2009

Highly recommend riding your bikes through the holiday light display in Griffith Park. It's fun being there at night with the spooky tree shadows and the smell of horses and grass in the air. They've closed the road to cars so it's just us bikers and walkers this week. Everyone's smiling and waving and chatting. There are kids in strollers and dogs and lots of photo...

Color Your Life

By Trudi Trueit - December 10, 2009

We’ve lived in our home for three and a half years and for three and a half years I have contemplated re-painting the light pinky-beige that the builder’s painter sprayed on every wall and ceiling. But all of the color choices confounded me. There were so many—too many. “Is this one too light?” I’d ask my husband. “This one is definitely too dark. Which one do you...

Faith And Works

By Ed Gungor - December 7, 2009

When most think about God they think of rules, commands, judgments and wrath—with the cherished counterbalance of grace and forgiveness sprinkled in. In American evangelicalism the goal of faith appears to center on “believing” the right thing—believing the gospel. But if “belief” is the only goal of the gospel, then once a person believes, life is...

Countdown to Christmas - 23 Days

By Sandra Harper - December 4, 2009

Overnight the holiday fairies swooped in and decorated Los Angeles. The friendly pumpkins of November have magically disappeared and in their place are wreaths on the employee shuttle vans, banners on the streetlights and a shiny, tinseled tree in our local Thai restaurant. Bing Crosby was crooning to the apples and pears in the produce section of my market. At the movies, ...

Countdown to Christmas - 21 Days

By Sandra Harper - December 4, 2009

Today's topic: Advent Calendars. Loved them as a kid. Loved them with MY kid. There's something so exciting about opening those cute, tiny doors. But I feel sort of silly doing it all alone without a child standing next to me. Not that I'm too OLD for pictures of tin drums and toy soldiers. But what about pictures especially for the grown up girl? In my advent calendar,...

By Nick Lake - December 4, 2009

Absolutely no one at all has asked me who would win in a fight between Taro, the vampire ninja hero of BLOOD NINJA, and Edward, from those obscure, hard-to-find books by Stephenie Meyer. Which is a shame, because I could answer them very simply: Taro would win. Why? Dude is a NINJA. As we all know, thanks to the mine of valuable information that is the internet, a ninja can...

Happy Holidays starring my book characters

By Julia DeVillers - December 3, 2009

Happy holidays from Liberty Porter, Trading Faces and ...me! http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/qdWSWX5kopODqZ6r

Just a reminder...

By Jennifer Echols - December 1, 2009

Next Saturday, December 5, I'll be signing books in the Birmingham area along with authors of adult romance Christy Reece, Debra Webb, and Peggy Webb, so these would be terrific events to drag your mom to. We'll be at the Books-A-Million in Fultondale from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the Books-A-Million at Brookwood Mall in Mountain Brook/Homewood from 3 to 5 p.m. I realized...

Countdown to Christmas - 25 Days

By Sandra Harper - December 1, 2009

Congratulations to everyone! We have completed Part I of the Holiday Season: Thanksgiving. To commemorate our courage and fortitude, please allow yourself some small meaningless gesture today. I shall be drinking an Eggnog Latte at Starbucks. And remember: we must enlist all mood elevating substances for battle against the dark days of December. Which begin tomorrow.

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