What A Lady!
What’s Jack up to? Jack is full of energy today. All I hear is tap, tap, tap as he wanders around the house his nails tapping in the wood floors. I have no clue what he’s up to and honestly I don’t want to know. I’m sure it’s trouble.
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the debut of Lady Jane’s Salon. Lady Jane is a new monthly romance reading series held at Madam X in Soho. It is the brain child of Authors Maya Rodale, Hope Tarr, Leanna Renee Heiber and Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com.Admission was 5.00 or a gently used romance novel. The reading was for a great cause: Share the Love which is an organization that collects gently used romance novels and passes them on to non-profit organizations that provides assistance to woman in transitional periods of their lives. For more information on share the love your can check out their website at http://www.share-the-love.org/.This month’s readers were Hope Tarr and Andrea Pickens. Both did a fabulous job and launched the series off in a most romantic way.
And the best part was I got to connect with lots of my writing buddies and blog friends. Here are a few pics. Sorry about any blurriness. All taken with the Blackberry and shaky hands.
The founders: Hope, Ron, Maya, Leanna
Andrea Pickens
Leanna, Lauren Willig, Elizabeth of Scandalous Women
Sarah Tormey and Elizabeth
Katie of Babbling about books, Chapter mate Stacy and Barbara Vey of Publishers WeeklyNext month my RWA/NYC chapter mate, and New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig will be reading along with Jenna Peterson. If you’re in town come and check it out the first Monday of the month. Don’t forget to bring a book!
Best,
KwanaThat’s Your Baby?
What’s Jack up to? He’s so happy that it’s looking like spring again or maybe that’s me after it being a bit cold and rainy in Boston this weekend. Sunshine and 70 today in NY. Yay, Jack! But don’t get too happy the walk will be short. It’s all about the writing from now on, baby.
So, Marley’s book party could not have been anymore spectacular. What a time we had. I got to meet and visit with so many agency sistah and blog friends. Like Maureen, Maria, Louisa, Kristen, Mel and Diana. And Super agent Deidre Knight and my Fab agent, Elaine. It really was: Women Gone Wild! But in the best way. Well, most of the time. Ahem, ’nuff said.The party was held at the lovely Lenox Hotel in Boston’s Back Bay. A perfect location for walking and shopping. It was absolutely beautiful and the staff could not have been more attentive.
Marley was a lovely and elegant host who was gracious while signing books for her many eager fans. “Just make that out to my biggest inspiration…”
There was an after party at the coolest club called Saint where we were treated to VIP treatment since we were with the famous author. Take a guess at who are the owners of these sparkly toes.
One of my funniest moments of the weekend though came from Ms. Diana when she asked about my three (3) children.
“Huh?”
“Well you’ve got the twins and the baby, Jack?”
“Huh”
“Your little one, Jack, that you always tell the stories about on your blog.”
“Um, Diana, Jack’s my dog.”
“Oh, I thought you were a little tough on him sometimes.”
Big sigh from me. Oh crap.
Thinking back to my daily Jack updates there must be folks out there thinking I’m the worst parent ever and considering calling child services on me. Taking my baby to the groomer and making him sleep in the basement because of all the nose he makes at night. Not to mention making him poop outside. Yikes. I’d call the cops on me. Too funny!! Just to be clear I only talk about Jack because the twins, DS and DD, since they are teens would probably sue me or at least end up in therapy if I talked about them too much on this blog.
Feel free to go on over and give Diana a little good natured ribbing today over this.
Before you go check out my “baby” who I apparently abuse terribly. Aww. Isn’t he the cutest?
More Party pics to come tomorrow.
best,
Kwana
Happy Launch Party, Wendy T!
What’s Jack up to? This morning he’s eager to run out in the rain and jump all over the man delivering wood for the fireplace. Look out Mister!There’s something so sweet and Waltons about having wood delivered. For a city girl who always lived in a Manhattan apartment it literally warms my heart. I guess there really is something to this suburbs thing.Happy Book Party day to Wendy Toliver! Her first book: THE SECRET LIFE OF A TEENAGE SIREN launched on December 26th and tonight’s she’s having a much deserved celebration. So if you’re looking for a fun read for a special girl check it out. Congratulations Wendy!Best,Kwana
