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In my novel, The Moment of Everything, I have a group of characters who are in the medieval group the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). First, let me say, I’m not a member of the SCA. I have a lot of friends who are, so I have been to some events and hung out with them enough to […]

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I was recently interviewed by for his show on ) on the movies that influenced my writing. You can listen to the interview here.

Highlights

The Godfather (1972) This is one of my all time favorite movies. The scenes are tight as a drum. I love the scene with Connie, Carlo, and Sonny at the dinner table arguing about if business should be discussed at the table. You lea...<![endif]--><!--[if lt IE 9]>

Anthony Breznican interviewed me for his show on Entertainment Weekly Radio (Sirius 105). We talked about the movies that influenced on The Moment of Everything (audio).

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Meeting with 52 book clubs in the 52 weeks of 2015? That’s crazy talk! Or is it? Here’s my progress so far. For each book club I meet with, I fill up one glass of wine because as we all know, wine is essential to book club meetings.

Met with so far in 2015

01.11.2015 Angry Nerds Book Club

Going to meet with in 2015

01.22.2015 Menlo Park Book Club

I grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, the daughter of a college professor and a social worker. I spent a lot of time in the library and the solarium on top of the Biology building where my father taught.

I attended the University of Tennessee where I earned a degree in English. After graduation, I started a career in software that led me to Silicon Valley. I worked as a technical writer for a number of years in Alabama and then moved to Silicon Valley in 1994 at the height of the Internet b...

Sometime around the year 2003, I got up one morning and decided I wanted to write a novel. I had an idea, so I sat down and started Chapter 1. It was then that I realized I had no idea how to write a novel.

To back up a bit, I’d just been laid off from a job that I’d poured the previous four years of my life into. It was a small company that grew fast as so many companies did in Silicon Valley in the late 90s. But much like Maggie, the main character in my book, my ride didn’t last. The bottom...

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From Grand Central Publishing�

In the tradition ofcomes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore.

Maggie Duprès, recently “involuntarily separated from payroll� at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly’s Used Books, ainstitution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.

When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it...

CHAPTER ONE
To Make You Essential to Me

Love finds for us what we do not know we want. —Henry

Books don’t change people’s lives, not like everyone thinks they do. Reading The Razor’s Edge while flying in first class to a meditation resort or The Sheltering Sky on a postdivorce hike to see what’s left of the snows of Kilimanjaro won’t make you any more enlightened than spinning in the teacups at Disneyland. I’m sorry, but that’s the truth of it. And the used books here at the Dragonfl...