First off, let’s pick a winner of Ellen Meister‘s awesome book, THE OTHER LIFE. By random drawing, the winner is… JackieW Jackie, please email your mailing addy to me (lisa @ lisa dale books . com). Thanks again to Ellen for stopping by for an interview! It’s also a new month (February, in case you didn’t [...]
Book Giveaway: Ellen Meister’s The Other Life
Happy News all! I have Ellen Meister here today, and she’s giving away a copy of her book, The Other Life, to one US reader. I read this novel and I highly recommend it: It’s about a woman who discovers a portal into her “other life,” the life in which she made different decisions than [...]
Cleo the Hedgehog Video And Update
Hi all! Thanks for sharing your one-line jokes with me on my last post! There’s no joke I like better than a pun or a corny one-liner! I thought you might like a little update on the baby hedgehog that we got a few months ago (she’s not such a baby any more!). Cleo’s happily [...]
Those Slippery Little Words
I’m not usually big on email forwards, but I got this one from my grandfather and I loved it. The Q&A below is why I love language so much…it’s so slippery and inexact. The particular challenge of being a writer is saying what you mean (or at least, what you think you mean). And certainly [...]
A Contest To Celebrate My New Release
Happy New year! First of all, thanks to everyone who shared their favorite books of 2011 with me! Particular thanks to those of you who listed my 2011 release, Slow Dancing on Price’s Pier, on your faves list. That made my day! Lotsa winners in this post! The winner of Sarah Blake’s The Postmistress, one [...]
