A Peek Into This Author's Life
I'm sure people conjure up some romantic notion of an author's life--and there are as many different stories as there are authors. Of course some authors have become rich and famous and don't have to worry about all the mundane things of life--I'm not one of them. Saturday, we decided to kind of take the day off. So after I answered all my emails and corrected one chapter, we headed to the post office because I had books to mail I was donating for a charity and then drove 17 miles to the nearest city. First we stopped off at the bank, then we went to Target to pick up a few needed items. We had lunch at a Japanese place--wonderful--and headed over to the movies to see Shutter Island. I'd read the book, and hubby and I both met author Dennis Lehane a few years ago at a Mayhem in the Midlands conference--he was pretty famous back then, but nothing like he is now. We liked the movie, it followed the book more than most movies manage to do. From there we stopped at Smar...