Would-be Wayfarer

I discovered the cover for my Xmas anthology this morning on Goodreads, and I found it pretty eye-popping. In the past, I've had cartoon covers, so people have occasionally thought that I write children's books. I don't think they'll make that mistake with this cover. Welcome to Romance!

HALFWAY HEXED was released today. So it's time to celebrate! Houston Book Signings: Saturday 2/5/11 at 4:30 pm Murder By the Book Saturday 2/12/11 at 2 pm Katy Budget Books Online Events** this week: 2/3/11 Bitten By Books Blog (Launch Party/Interview with Tammy Jo & Rollie the vampire) 2/4/11 The Season for Romance Blog 2/5/11 Fang-tastic Books Blog 2/6/11 Coffee Time Romance Blog ** For the links to all these sites and more information, click here to reach the calendar on my website. I hope to see you online and in person! Thanks for reading! :) Hugs, Kimber P.S. The great fireworks public domain photo comes from: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ They always have awesome pictures!

Halfway Hexed comes out in ... 3 days! February 1, 2011 Frost Fiction Newsletter releases even sooner. If you are not signed up with your current email address, do so immediately! Some things are not to be missed...like the bourbon chocolate truffle recipe! ;)

Rumors of my abduction to Belize have been greatly exaggerated. I am, in fact, alive and well and writing late into the night on the new book!! I had asked Mercutio to please answer my emails and keep up with blogging and posting on FB and Twitter for me, but I think he's just been playing Mafia Wars or something. Anyway, I know I owe everyone a few long posts and a newsletter or two in the coming months. I will get on it. AND I will have fun news to share. But for the moment, I've got to pile on some Nano-worthy word counts. More soon! xoxo, Kimber

Sometimes when something is hugely popular, I avoid it. Not sure why that is (but I suspect it has its roots in the unfortunate incident of my reading The Celestine Prophecy .) Anyway, I resisted Eat, Pray, Love for a really long time, then finally broke down and got my copy after a close friend and I started a cozy two-person book club and chose EPL because it was about a woman's journey of self-discovery, which was something we had been discussing. Anyway, the book is lovely, and I consumed it with the same relish that the author would consume a pizza in Naples. Elizabeth Gilbert meets the world as a friend, which I found endearing and instructional. She is witty and charming and, at moments, self-deprecating and unflinchingly honest; I found it impossible not to like her. And, while I learned a lot about Liz Gilbert and the world from reading this book, I also learned a thing or two about myself (and I didn't even have to scrub floors for five hours a day in India to do so...

I'm lucky enough to have two careers that I love, but because both writing and medicine are exacting professions, sometimes it's hard to focus on anything but those two things. Other parts of life tend to fall by the wayside...like raking the leaves in my yard (thank goodness I have big privacy fences or my neighbors would be appalled!). So the subject of my hair came up recently. I have wavy hair that's quite prone to Helter Skelter moments. My hair is, in fact, an excellent example of the scientific principle that things tend toward entropy. Anyway, a few weeks back, I noticed that I'd been wearing headbands almost daily. I thought in exasperation: Who am I? Alice about to enter Wonderland? (Sighing heavily.) I am not a little girl. Not for a long time. And call me crazy, but I'm of the opinion that headbanded hair isn't really a look that a grown woman should sport much outside her own castle, er townhouse. So I made the appointment with a certain amount of ...