Archive for October, 2006



A normal person interviews Laura

So when I turned in the Mary Kay interview to my editor as the Q & A she had asked me to prepare for publicity purposes, she said, “Umm, I really had something a little more…normal…in mind. Don’t you know any normal people? Or couldn’t you pretend to be normal yourself?”
She’s read Blame […]

That nice lady Marie Claire & fondue

So, when I mentioned that Marie Claire had chosen Blame It on Paris as one of its recommended books for this month (I might have mentioned this to a lot of people), I would get one of two kinds of emails back, depending on the generation of the person emailing. Either the email would […]

Two families

I like to think of Blame It on Paris as not only a love story between two people but a love story between two families, two cultures, two worlds, and a story about what I like to call the absolute mad enthusiasm with which they embraced each other. Because if one person and her […]