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M.J. Pullen is a distracted writer and the mom of two boys in Roswell, Georgia, where she is absolutely late for something important right now. Her books include quirky romantic comedies and playful women's fiction. She blogs erratically with writing advice, random observations, and reflections on raising very loud kids and dogs. Join her Distracted Readers newsletter list for updates, free content, giveaways and more.

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For those who’ve been asking to see them (and those who haven’t!), here is the complete post of pictures from the Nov. 7th launch – slash – birthday party at FoxTale Books (and my favorite local brewery, Reformation). I am also including some pictures from the signing this past weekend at Barnes & Noble in  […]
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Hope you have a wonderful, fulfilling (and filling) Thanksgiving however you celebrate. Here’s how we’re rolling at our house this year… If you haven’t already, please enter my Gratitude Giveaway — comment on the blog post (and/or the other stuff you are ordered to do by Rafflecopter) for a chance to win an autographed hardback  […]
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Giving thanks… It’s the season of gratitude, my favorite time of year. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, the festive atmosphere of Christmas and the New Year… I love it all. But Thanksgiving is especially important to me. Maybe it’s because – as a convert to Judaism – it’s really the only family holiday I celebrated as a child  […]
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For all my Macon/Central Georgia friends, family and readers: please mark your calendars for 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 21st. I’ll be doing an author appearance at the Barnes & Noble on Riverside Drive and signing THE MARRIAGE PACT. If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll drop by and say hello! Please also feel  […]
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Just a quick, slightly belated post to say “thank you” to everyone who helped make THE MARRIAGE PACT launch last week a ton of fun and (from my end, at least) a big success. I am so grateful to Nicole Sohl, Brendan Deneen, Jessica Preeg and Annie Hulkower at Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan Entertainment; as  […]
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November 3rd is a big day in M.J.’s little world! It’s MARRIAGE PACT release day! And my birthday! And EVERY OTHER SATURDAY is free from today until Friday! In other news, I have already used my allotment of exclamation points for the entire month of November. Effusive punctuation aside, you can now get THE MARRIAGE  […]
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In just a few days, I’ll be turning 40. Like most everyone around my age I’ve talked to lately, I truly, truly believe age is just a number, that there is absolutely no reason a “milestone” birthday should hold more significance than others, blah, blah, blah. And yet. It’s hard not to stop and take  […]
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Sundown tonight begins Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, and the time during which we fast in order to “afflict our souls” and try very hard to focus on atoning for our wrongs (rather than counting the minutes until sundown tomorrow when we can eat and drink again). In between Rosh Hashanah  […]
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At the gym the other day, as I wiped my sweaty brow for the twentieth time or so, I thought suddenly of my paternal grandmother. She used to say, “Southern ladies don’t sweat, they glisten.” Yeah, right. She said a lot of crap like that. I think she knew that we knew she was full  […]
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