I was featured in Candymag.com's It Girls on the Web .. :) Please do check it out!! www.candymag.com/magazine/fashion/style-files-bea-robles me at the homepage Candy's feature on me :) I might as well plug my chictopia account... Ok, I have a confession to make.. I've had this blog for several years now. I used to blog continuously during my first year in college, then I suddenly...

I've been addicted to anything studded recently.. Dress by Mango   Stud Addiction by summerromance on Polyvore.com I've wanted a leather sling bag from topshop since forever !! There's a new stock in style and I don't know whether or not I should buy it..

I forgot to pout this morning because I got so caught up in my research! ARGH! Bad self! Bad self! But then I read a bunch of blogs where everyone wrote all glowy about BEA. Now my lower lip is jutting out again, creating, as my grandfather used to point out, the perfect perch for a bird to land on. (This made me afraid of birds for a long time. It did not cure my pouting. Thanks, Grandpa.) If you...

Achy, tired, dehydrated life, but life nonetheless. O Universe, thank you for only making me attend one day of BEA... (the Javits Center is large, visually interesting from the outside, spacious enough to hold an entire village, idiot included, and has the worlds hardest concrete floors that even the double-layer of carpet padding the larger booths pay to put down can't make comfortable. 10 out of...

I picked the first crop of lettuce from my garden for today's salad. Threw in fresh chives, too. What are you having for lunch?

This is fun! If you have a chance, scroll through yesterday's comments. Be sure to chime today, telling me how you are pouting because somehow your invitation and plane tickets to BEA got lost in the mail. We'll have us a good old communal pout and then write another book. Here is something to make the wretched, hungry hoards at the Javits Center envious: Cup of coffee in my favorite mug and...

Off for a full day at BEA (Book Expo America), starting with a signing at the Harlequin booth at the Javits Center, and ending with a party way downtown. Twelve hours of Bright!Cheerful!Social!Author! My feet already hurt. Play nice while I'm gone...

OK, these writing suggestions are a little basic , I know, but I would like to point out that most of us are stuck at home in our pjs, not living the high life at BEA. So maybe we need to learn a few new things. ::poutpoutpoutpoutpout:: ::reaches for the caviar-stuffed potato skins:: What would you add to the list? Who was going to make the seven-layer bean dip? I can't find it anywhere....

I have nothing to whine about. I know. I've been to BEA (The Mother of All Bookseller/Author Conferences) many times. And I've had a blast. But like I said, I am NOT whining. I've been all over the place the last six months, met awesome booksellers and readers, and it is only fair that my publishers send other authors to enjoy the festival/celebration/frat party/book extravaganza that is BEA. ...

...of mail. The second book in the Hunger Games trilogy!!! I made myself put it aside so I could have time to read it straight through which I did today during the trip from Houston to NYC for BEA. As people were boarding a young adult saw the book and stopped in the aisle. "Is that the seoond book in THE HUNGER GAMES? How did you get one? Could you give it to me when you're done?" all came...