Today, I had the pleasure of meeting a group of Barnes & Noble managers and community relations coordinators at the Twin Cities Grill in the Mall of America. Very fun. Such marvelously nice people, to put it mildly. We all love books, of course, and we have a passion for what we do, so I […]
Eve Giveaway!
Hello, my little kumquats. Today is your special day. Eve: A Novel of the First Woman does not appear on bookshelves, I’m told, until January 27th. Five of you (who enter, of course!) will receive, via priority mail, a brand-spanking-new hardcover edition of Eve. The directions are as follows. Simply post something on today’s blog […]
The Creation Order
For some of you, this post will be blasphemy, so read no further. For others of you, it might be laughable. But for right now, if you can suspend judgment for a few moments, you might crack open your mind just slightly, to allow your thinking neurons to fire in different ways. [Remember, doubt is […]
Should Eve Have Been Steve?
So. It’s sometime in September of last year, and my husband Dan is reading Eve for the first time while we’re in the Ukraine. Every once in a while, he glances up from reading and makes a statement or asks a question, and I grab my notebook and jot them down. Some of the questions […]
Cain and Abel
Dan and I saw this massive painting–the kind you have to stand yards away from to take it all in–at the Musée d’Orsay in 2007. I had finished Eve by that time, so I was interested in the cavemen-like representation of the characters, more along the lines of what you would expect the first people […]