Today is the day! My baby is born! I have spent the morning on various radio stations across America. I woke up at 5:00 am for my first interview in Syracuse, New York. From Syracuse to St. Paul, then over to San Francisco – today is a very busy day for me. My aunt Esperanza,…
On February 6, 2007 my book will be selling in major bookstores across the United States. It is an odd feeling knowing those years of work and persistence is about to pay off in the form of a printed 350-page book with 51 chapters! Did I include all the best information I could? Did I…
Three years of building a company, a decade of traveling solo, two years of rewriting book after book, an endless stream of tears and hours of laughing have been condensed into 336 pages. In some ways, my book reminds me of a gravestone – there it is, all that I am, all that is passionate…
WOW! Oh my! My glorious shoes that I had made in Milan showed up on my doorstep today. I can’t wait to wear them, but I know that I have to keep them for my book signing. “sign.” But what a divine treat I have to look forward to on the day of my book…
Holly Payne is a novelist and screenwriter living in San Francisco. She is the author of two novels, The Virgin’s Knot and The Sound of Blue. “The Virgin’s Knot” is the critically acclaimed story of a magically gifted Turkish woman whose faithful virgin hands create prized dowries for lucky brides, something that the weaver herself…
Gene Fowler said: “Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” That is how I feel about editing. I hate it. I hate staring at a set of words I once wrote with passion and verve, only to be forced…
At last the final edits to FLY SOLO are done and now I get to go through all the pictures and find the bet ones for my book. Of course, we are having the online contest that will determine many of the shots, but I am still missing pictures for a ton of locations in…
