How I met my

I'm interviewing....YOU!
Happy Thanksgiving Week everyone! Who's ready for Turkey and Pumpkin Pie???Blogging Schedule this week: Obviously, I'm blogging today... and Wednesday will be my interview with Uber cool author Tamara Leigh (where she will be giving away a set of ALL 5 of her most recent novels... this includes Stealing Add

"The Book-Signing"
The winner of Michael Synder’s Return Policy and some random item from his desk (via random number selection via my husband) is…….Katie Ganshert!! Congrats!! Please e-mail me at Krista @kristaphillips.com with your mailing address!And now, for

HOLIDAY BOOK GIVING GUIDE: Michael Snyder's "Return Policy"
KRISTA'S HOLIDAYBOOK GIVING GUIDE: 2009Week 3: Contemporary Humorous Literary Fiction (or just General Fiction...)Michael Snyder's Return Policy This week we are veering off the "romance" path a little and landing s

Diving into a pool of rewriting he-- er, bliss
I love writing books. I really do. As most of you know, I'm a true seat of the pants writer. I start with a vague story idea. I have a basic character sketch, a setting, and have a general, "This book is about ________." I'll talk more about that next week, but suffice to say, my books are very rough when they are fini

Winner announced and... Vibrating Bums???
First, I'd like to congratulate Valerie on winning Erica Vetsch's novel, The Bartered Bride! She won using a VERY scientific method--I typed all names in excel... sorted by alpha, then had my husband pick a number... which happened to coincide with Valerie's row. (usually I just have my daughter pick a name out o