Mary Kay Andrews
I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning.Collection: Morning
I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.Collection: Christmas
I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.Collection: Wedding
As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.Collection: Romantic
Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.Collection: Movies
For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.Collection: Christmas
Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.Collection: Technology
Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.Collection: Holiday
You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy FitCollection: Issues
And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.Collection: Long
Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.Collection: Jobs
Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author’s trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells!Collection: Heart