Join us with our latest #ThrowbackThursday with Amanda Ashby! It’s Throwback Thursday and I’m torn on whether to call this “Girl with the Big Hair Hanging Out in the Eighties” or ‘That Time My Friends Surprised Me With a Scary Looking Stripper For My Twenty-First Birthday”. Then again I could…
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Happy #ThrowbackThursday Readers! Today, we’re remembering our teen crushes. You now, the heartthrobs you had pictures of plastered all over your room? Sigh. Young love. Here is a countdown of the boys that stole our young hearts! 5. Freddie Prinze Junior Oh Freddie. He was a staple…
It’s not often we get to write about things that we’ve actually done. Most writers just research, or find someone who has done it and go from there. But every once in a great while we do get to weave a little bit of our real lives into our stories.…
Hello everyone! I’m Diane Alberts (though I also write as Jen McLaughlin) and I thought it would be fun to have a little bit of Throwback Thursday fun! I just released a new book on December 7th called SAY YOU’RE MINE, and it’s the fifth book in the Shillings Agency…
I went to Brazil twice when I was in my early twenties, first as part of a study abroad program and then again on my own. For this Throwback Thursday, I’m sharing some pictures from my travels to show the inspiration for Julia and Blake’s adventure in HOW TO…
“Women in Glasses Seldom Get Passes” I started wearing glasses when I was eight years old, when Nehru jackets were cool, baby, and The Beatles were becoming hot. I remember moving from (at the time) rural Bakersfield down to southern California, where my second grade teacher eventually caught me squinting…
I Was a Geek Before Geeks Were Geeks From Dictionary.com: [geek] Slang. noun A digital-technology expert or enthusiast. A person who has excessive enthusiasm for and some expertise about a specialized subject or activity. A peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, or socially awkward.…
Throwback Thursday: Wrestling Edition When I was a kid, wrestling was never really on my radar. I knew my big brother had wrestled in high school, but that knowledge had little to no context. (He’s twelve years older than me, so if I was ever taken to a meet,…
A girl and her bus. A love story. Never mind the cowboy boots and unfortunately small pajamas. I think I was probably around two in this picture, which would’ve made it 1974. We lived in a two story farmhouse with a barn full of chickens, goats, pigs, ducks and two…
This is the winter formal at my Midwestern high school—I’m on the left. The first thing to know about this dance is that I asked my date to accompany me and he said, “I’ll think about it.” How I survived that mortification, I don’t know. He eventually accepted, though, and…