Actress. Writer. Foodie. Book Nerd.
Did you know I had cousins from England? Neither did I until I went to study in London. I was very fortunate to get to know my cousin Dan and his wonderful family while I was studying there.
Here I am with Dan’s boys, Harry and Charlie, in front of the big fireplace at Hampstead Heath.
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Title: Fall From India Place
Author: Samantha Young
Genre: New Adult
Publisher: NAL
Publication Date: June 3, 2014
Pages: 294
Buy:AmazonWhen Hannah Nichols last saw Marco D’Alessandro, five long years ago, he broke her heart. The bad boy with a hidden sweet side was the only guy Hannah ever loved—and the only man she’s ever been with. After one intense night of giving into temptation, Marco took off, leaving Scotland and Hannah behind. Shattered by the consequences of their night together, Hannah has never truly moved on.
Leaving Hannah was the biggest mistake of Marco’s life, something he has deeply regretted for years. So when fate reunites them, he refuses to let her go without a fight. Determined to make her his, Marco pursues Hannah, reminding her of all the reasons they’re meant to be together.
But just when Marco thinks they’re committed to a future together, Hannah makes a discovery that unearths the secret pain she’s been hiding from him, a secret that could tear them apart before they have a real chance to start over again…
One year ago today, Robby and I finished the first draft of On the Air. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we started this. So much has happened. Honestly if you told me a year ago we’d be where we are now, I would have thought you were crazy.
Actually I thought we were crazy for embarking on this journey.
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LITERALLY right after we finished the first draft and submitted it to NYMF—notice the crazy eyes?
I’m so excited to share our new headshots with you!
With On the Air picking up and some cabaret opportunities on the horizon, we knew we needed some new headshots as a singer/songwriter team. We’re in the process of setting up a new website (which you will see in due time!), so we needed some shots for that as well.
We called Beth Capuano again who had done such a great job with our old headshots. She’s truly fantastic to work with and at a fraction of the cost if you were to go into the city. Check ’em out!
I’m a late arriver to the skinny mashed potatoes train. I wish I had jumped aboard sooner! They are delicious!
For those of you wondering how mashed potatoes can be skinny, well let me fill you in on the not so secret substitution–cauliflower.
Say what?
Yep, you heard me. Instead of using actual potatoes, sub them for cauliflower.
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Title: That Summer
Author: Lauren Willig
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publication Date: June 3, 2014
Pages: 352
Buy:Amazon2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house’s shrouded history begins to open…1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter, Evie, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur’s collection of medieval artifacts, including Gavin Thorne, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion.From modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement, Lauren Willig’s That Summer takes readers on an un-put-downable journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman’s search for the truth about her past—and herself.
College is a fantastic time in a young person’s life. You get to “find” yourself, most likely live away from home for the first time, and meet some awesome friends along the way.
Not to mention graduate with some great stories… 😉
It’s hard after you graduate to stay in touch. People move, start families, work takes over; I’m extremely lucky that I still see and speak with a lot of my friends from college. We all live relatively near one another and if not, are at least up to date with what’s going on in each others lives (lets face it, we’re nosy like that).
I graduated a semester early and that last semester I student taught from home so really, I only had 3 years on campus. My last year on campus, I lived in the newly built “Pods”. It was a suite of four rooms with two bathrooms.
8 girls living together in close quarters. It was awesome and crazy at the same time.
Some of the best memories from college are from the year I lived in the Pod.
This was us the second night of our junior year. 🙂
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Ahhh, it’s that time of year again! I can smell it in the air; the mad dash to finish a song, finalizing last minute scene changes, the sweat, the tears, the shear panic–all ending in shear exhaustion and jubilation that you got everything in on time.
It’s Festival submission season for new writers. For those of you unfamiliar with this tear-inducing season, it’s when many Theatre and Musical Theatre festivals open submissions for new works. This is a prime opportunity for new writers to get your shows out there. It’s also a great opportunity to get your works finished because–hello–deadlines!
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Title: Here’s Looking at You
Author: Mhairi McFarlane
Genre: Chick Lit, British Chick Lit
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Publication Date: December 5, 2013
Pages: 432
Buy:AmazonThe new novel from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Hello. What if the last person you wanted to see was the person you needed? After the runaway success of You Had Me At Hello, Mhairi McFarlane is back with a new cast of characters in her second book, Here’s Looking At You. In essence it’s an ugly duckling tale. Our heroine Aureliana returns to school after fifteen years for a reunion. School doesn’t hold happy memories for her, as being a roly poly Italian (known as the Italian Galleon), and always armed with a Tupperware full of pungent Mediterranean food, she was bullied incessantly throughout her years there. Now in her 30s, Aureliana wants to put the past behind her once and for all and face up to the bullies who made her life hell. But she is much-changed from the girl she once was – all curves and because I’m worth it hair – and no one recognises her when she arrives. Losing her bottle, she backs out on her plan for revenge and slinks off, hoping never to be reminded of her years at school again. But fate gets in the way, and after the reunion her path keeps crossing with James – major hunk and Aureliana’s major crush back at school. But alas, as a cronie to the bullies, Aureliana to this day believes that his beautiful exterior hides an ugly interior. As they continue to cross paths a love/hate relationship ensues until eventually something shifts, and they both start to discover what the person underneath is really like…Full of Mhairi’s trademark laugh out loud humour, Here’s Looking At You is a novel about facing your demons and being happy with who you really are.
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Title: Lark Rising (Guardians of Tarnec #1)
Author: Sandra Waugh
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: September 23, 2014
Pages: 384
Buy:AmazonLark has foreseen two things—she will fall for a young man with sage green eyes,and he will kill her.
Sixteen-year-old Lark Carew is happiest close to home, tending her garden and gathering herbs for medicines. But when her Sight warns her that monsters called Troths will soon invade her village, Lark is summoned on a journey to seek help from the legendary Riders of Tarnec. Little does she suspect that one of the Riders, Gharain, is the very man who has haunted her visions. Or that the people of Tarnec have called her there for another reason: Lark is the Guardian of Life, the first of four Guardians who must awaken their powers to recover four stolen amulets. Together, the amulets—Life, Death, Dark, and Light—keep the world in Balance. To take back the Life amulet, Lark will have to discover her true inner strength and give in to a love that she swears will be her downfall.
