Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a great start to 2016, or at least being comforted by endlessly watchable bad television. I’m tucked under a sherpa blanket and a boxer-shepherd mix watching Big Hero 6 with my family. Pretty sweet. It’s been quite a year for me (and my family, who get  […]

Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a great start to 2016, or at least being comforted by endlessly watchable bad television. I’m tucked under a sherpa blanket and a boxer-shepherd mix watching Big Hero 6 with my family. Pretty sweet. It’s been quite a year for me (and my family, who get  […]

It’s the second week of my Gratitude Giveaway! Enter and comment below to win an autographed copy of THE MARRIAGE PACT. One of the favorite gifts I received for my birthday last month was a roll of toilet paper. No, it wasn’t a joke about getting old and never knowing when you might suddenly “have  […]

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  […]

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  […]

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  […]

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  […]

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  […]

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  […]

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  […]