Odianaysseus’s Adventures in Ithaca

Rumors of my death, dismemberment, infection with Ebola, or ISP troubles have been greatly exaggerated. Which is not to say that I haven’t appreciated all the emails I’ve been getting over the last few days wondering where the heck I’ve been. Muchas gracias.
Here’s what happened. I just took a road trip to upstate New York [...]

Once Upon Stilettos and risky choices

I’m super-excited for today’s GCC tour of Shanna Swendson and her new release, Once Upon Stilettos. Not only is Shanna a buddy of mine, but I’ve been waiting for this book, the second installment in her Enchanted Inc. series. I read the first when it came out last year. Since I’m now working on a [...]

Winners!

Oh, crud! I got so distracted by all that “what authors look like” chatter yesterday that I forgot to announce the winners of the ARC giveaway. Let me rectify that, and make it up to my loyal blog readers by giving away not one, but TWO copies, as chosen by Sailor Boy:
Madison Reece(PS: Madison, SB [...]

Look Here

In the comments trail of the last post, someone said:
(1) You talk so much here about fellow writers’ appearances and how beautiful they are. (2) It’s apparent from your own pictures that you’re very attractive as well and that must certainly help when people come to get a book from you or the author, Gina, [...]

Things Diana Did Her Third (and Final) Day at BEA

(Note: Drawing for ARC winners tomorrow!)
1. Got there bright and early. (9:30 on the dot) to meet editor (the cutie to my left) for breakfast.2. Wandered around until editor showed up. parking in DC is so not fun.3. Collected a few fun books, including the kind of “I almost died in the wilderness and [...]

Things Diana Did Her Second Day at BEA

1. Brought a backpack. This is very important, as allowed for most of the the following…2. Discovered that there was a whole, special section for autographing upstairs in the “children’s publishing and Ellora’s Cave” section that she had not known about.3. Met Simone Elkeles and the Flux crew, including Andrew Karre. Got a “new literati” [...]

Things Diana Did Her First Day at BEA

1. Got lost. Convention centers are very big.2. Didn’t bring a bag. Thought we’d get them like at RWA. Bad move.3. Went to the RWA booth and said hi. They totally didn’t accuse me of being difficult. So that’s good.4. Got a whole stack of those “little book of” and “little BLANK kits.” Free! Whee!5. [...]

ARCs, a Coda (and a contest!)

So I’m catching up on my blog reading, and my buddy Colleen Gleason pointed me over to the recent dust-up at Smart Bitches about this whole selling-ARCs on eBay thing. (And my oh my, it was a dust-up, wasn’t it? There was some serious smackage going on there, and obviously some sort of feud with [...]

Darn pop culture reference, won’t do what I tell it to…

Doncha just hate it when your pop culture references won’t stay still? For example, are you aware that Humphrey Bogart’s Rick never ever, not even once, said “Play it again, Sam?” The actual line is “Play it, Sam. You played it for her, you can play it for me.” How many people have gotten that [...]

Alison Pace on Pugs and Pomp

Today’s GCC tour brings us Alison Pace, author of last year’s delightfully offbeat debut If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend, who once again, brings us dog lover’s chick lit. Man have we been having some serious dog envy here at Diana’s Diversions. First, Robin Brande starts bragging on her doggy camping trip, and now Alison [...]