Marcy in the New York Times
September 4th, 2007
What good is having your own blog if you can’t brag about your girl? In a piece about MySpace and the book world in the New York Times Book Review, Pagan Kennedy devoted a paragraph to Marcy and her pioneering use of MySpace to promote Twins. I confess I used to hide the occasional sneer when she was compulsively befriending strangers instead of, say, writing the next book, but we all have our own ways of procrastinating, and hey, it worked for Lily Allen. Authors weren’t dime-a-dozen on MySpace at the time, and making people with her characters’ names into her “top friends” was pretty clever.
Dominican Republic, 2007
March 24th, 2007
Time for vacation photos! Beaches, palm trees, the works. Pictures from our recent trip down to the Dominican Republic, where we used to live for the better part of the year 2000. Touring a good chunk of the island by boat, car, motoconcho, and propeller plane, we visited old friends and old haunts in Santo Domingo, Santiago, Sosua, Las Terrenas, and in between, saw whales in the bay of Samana, dove a little, and made two movies: “Playa Bonita” and “Outlandish Republic.”
