Blog Archives - Laura DiSilverio

Virtual Book Club

Laura — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:13:08 +0000

I’m trying something new. And you can join me. Writing about the five women who make up the Readaholics book club in my new mystery series has inspired me to start a book club. It’s been seven or eight years since I participated in a book club, and I’m ready to be part of one […]

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The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Laura — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:14:55 +0000

Your first anniversary is coming up. You’ve been married for eleven and a half blissful months and you’ve written almost all the thank-you notes for the wedding gifts. And now, you have to think about an anniversary gift. Paper, Rock, Aluminum You can go with the tried and true and Google “anniversary present by year,” […]

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Do You Read Sad Books?

Laura — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:02:07 +0000

Late last year, I read John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, a YA bestseller about a 16-year-old girl, Hazel, with terminal cancer and a 17-year-old boy, Augustus, who is in remission from osteosarcoma when the book opens. (Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this post and I highly recommend you read the book.) […]

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Titlemania

Laura — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:54:08 +0000

Sometimes titles pop into an author’s head as a serendipitous gift, but more often they’re the product of trial and error, hard work, and conscious creativity. Publishers occasionally tell an author what the title will be and then you’re stuck unless your agent can convince them to change it. If a title for your new […]

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The Readaholics Read The Maltese Falcon

Laura — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:11:50 +0000

Part of the fun of writing a series about a mystery book club is selecting the books they get to read. For a variety of reasons, I decided that Amy-Faye and her friends would mostly read classic mysteries. Mainly, I wanted an excuse to immerse myself in the best of the genre and call it […]

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A Guide for Surviving Life with Teens

Laura — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:24:59 +0000

The word “teenager” comes from the Latin and means “a puddle of hormonally unbalanced moods, angst, disobedience, rolling eyes and sarcasm incapable of hanging up a single item of clothing or taking a shower that doesn’t drain Lake Superior.” Latin is a remarkably succinct, although dead, language. (Confession: “teen” doesn’t really come from the Latin, […]

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The Last Goodbye and Other Lasts

Laura — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:15:09 +0000

My husband was out of town last week on business and I had the bed to myself for four nights. What’s unusual about that is not my husband’s absence, but that neither of my daughters took the opportunity to come snuggle with me. They’ve outgrown it, I guess. On the one hand, it’s a relief—sleeping […]

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Which You Lives in Your Closet?

Laura — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:00:17 +0000

Conventional wisdom says, “The eyes are the windows of the soul,” but a woman’s closet runs a close second. As spring approaches each year, I get the itch to clean out my closet (partly so I can justify shopping for new summer stuff). What I realized this year as I stood at the door of […]

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Separation Anxiety in Pets

Laura — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:00:50 +0000

I know many of you have a dog, as I do. (This may apply to cats, too, but I haven’t had a cat since I was a girl—allergies.) Anyway, I wonder if you see personality changes as they age. Our Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, Marco, seems to have developed some separation anxiety and a new sneakiness […]

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Donna Summer Was Right

Laura — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:00:51 +0000

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus My friend Hank recently passed along this quotation when I was moaning about something. (Never mind what—it’s too embarrassing.) I was immediately struck by the truth of […]

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