Quoth Og Mandino

"The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Baby got bustle! (with pictures yet!)

Man I have been slammed this week, which accounts for my general level of radio silence. But I’ve got so much to report! Let’s start with costuming.

1) The great sewing project has well and truly commenced, and much progress has been made. Late last week I laced up the corset I made [...]

THE NATIVE STAR: Launch Day!

Oh my goodness, I can hardly believe this day is finally here. Launch day! Today my debut novel, THE NATIVE STAR, hits the shelves and the Internets nationwide. I am simply beside myself.

I couldn’t sleep last night, so I stayed up to watch my status in Amazon flip over from “coming soon” [...]

Guess what arrived today!

If you guessed “a big box from Random House containing Mary’s author copies of THE NATIVE STAR” you’d be 100% correct. Ding ding ding ding! And you’d also be correct if you guessed that, upon receiving said copies, I would run immediately to the internet to post photos. You may be peering at your [...]

Summer's here!

Yes, when she’s not parading hungry friends through the house, coming in to my office with up-to-the-minute alerts on the life-and-death urgency attendant upon me enrolling her in breakdancing lessons (“EVERYONE knows how to breakdance, mom! EVERYONE BUT ME!”), or coming up with meticulously hand-drawn, color-coded, shockingly usurious price-tables meant to be applied to [...]

I have a new boyfriend

And he is a cat. Yes, it turns out that Felix, the boy-cat that I rescued from Clackamette Park, is the smarmiest little dude I’ve ever met. If he were a skunk, he’d be Pepe Le Pew. See, he’s decided that he simply ADORES me. This weekend, while I was doing page proofs, he [...]