I’m kind of pretending this is Monday morning, because I have a lot to do tomorrow and need to preserve my precious and few morning brain cells for some business items. Fortunately, I see I’m not the only one who does this, because over at The Well-Read Child, Monday morning’s post is already up and it’s an interview with yours truly. Find out why I write about outcasts, my favorite scene in the book, and super-secret info on where I write. Thanks for having me, Jill!

On Saturday the recovery from my mountain driving experience and book launch ended up involving a four-in-a-row Lifetime Moviethon, in the following order: Too Young to Marry, My Daughter’s Secret, Queen Sized, and Girl’s Best Friend. Very, very satisfying in a way that only four Lifetime Movies can be. I’m not proud.

The Superbowl. (Super Bowl?) Well, wow. Kinda boring for the first three quarters, then…drama! This is what editors and crit group people mean when they say that something in a story has to be at stake. The game was just kind of going along more or less as expected—not a bad game, but no drama, nothing to really care about other than how the Pats would take what everyone felt they were entitled to. It had a sense of inevitability that stories can get, too. When the Giants scored in the fourth quarter, suddenly everything was at stake and you couldn’t take your eyes off the game. Every character seemed key, every play crucial. Everything mattered!

If you are in the San Francisco area, please do come see me at Not Your Mother’s Book Club on Tuesday night! At Books Inc., Opera Plaza – 7 p.m.  I’ve got a lot of friends and family in the area, so it should be a lively crowd. Their presence might even get me to REVEAL IMPORTANT SECRETS. (I don’t know what those might be, but I’m ready for anything.)