I Need Some Help
Just in case any of you have a spare half hour or hour...I could use a little bit of help. Here are some mini projects that don't take that much time. They're last on my list because I need to focus all…
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1321 postsCan We Say BabeMobile?
A gorgeous black man in a champagne Nissan pulled up next to me at a light and smiled till I was finished rolling down the window. Here we go, our first joke about the pink car, I thought. "How's that…
Read more →The Bramobile Needs It's First Wash
I'm taking the Bramobile to a signmaker today to get an estimate on the stickers. But first we're going to get it''s first wash. I'm going to a gas station in Marin, where I hope they have diesel so I can…
Read more →Vegas or Australia...hmmm
I found out that my two favorite places are currently running contests for free trips. Vegas, Baby! Submit your best Vegas story in 250 words, and you could "win a trip to Hollywood to play in a celebrity…
Read more →Travel Writer's Calendar
My inbox is usually swamped with newsletters. Half of which I keep until I read, and the other half of which gets filtered through my Bulk mail where I don't miss it if I don't see it. The ones that make…
Read more →Adventures in Buying Sand
Here's a funny account of book buying that came to my inbox today. I love it when strangers write in. Dear Friends, While on the road, I decided to stop in at a typical mall bookstore and see if they had…
Read more →Bestseller!
"Collection of ridiculous and sublime travel experiences" That's what it says next to our title in this week's San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller List We made #10 of ten on the Paperbacks list…
Read more →Gone Back to PrintAgain!
We have more than 16,000 books shipped from our warehouse, and now we've put an order in for another 3500. This will be the third time the book has gone to the printer since the initial print run of…
Read more →Is it Christmas Yet?
I really really want this. Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Random House, 2003) by Katherine Lederer One woman's autobiographical account of how her intellectual family turned into professional…
Read more →The Buzz is Building
Flattery will get you everywhere. I was Googling (has that made the dictionary yet? v. the act of searching for information on the website Google.com) Sand in My Bra today. Once I got past all the Written…
Read more →August SIMB Update
It's getting exciting over here in Sandville. Susan told me yesterday that Sand in My Bra will be translated in Thai and Dutch. The shipment from our third print run is back so we're stacked up on…
Read more →It's BP Week!
Whether you're attending the Book Passage Travel Writer and Photographers Conference or just bumping beer mugs in the after hour events, this is one of the best weeks of summer for travel writers in the…
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