I’ve just returned from a little family vacation: a couple days in Boston and then a couple days in New Hampshire. It was nice to get the chance to show our little city to Roy and Hazel, whom we visited in England a couple years ago. We took a walk through the public gardens, and later we walked down Beacon Street and saw my old dorm (which is now an apartment building):
And the former Governor’s mansion, which is now also the former Emerson Library, where Tom worked when we were in school. It had a beautiful reading room:
New Hampshire is absolutely stunning at this time of year – peak foliage season. We had a little river rushing by our back deck; we would have spent more time out there enjoying the view if only it weren’t so chilly.
It could be a nice place for a little writer’s retreat, I think. As long as we brought some very, very warm clothes and figured out some way to make tea. I find views like this lovely and inspiring, but I don’t know if it’s really conducive to getting work done. I admitted to someone (another creative soul) that my ideal work space is pretty much a windowless cave, and she tilted her head and peered at me in that curious, my-you-are-a-strange-one sort of way. But there it is.
Before I post more New Hampshire photos, I have some links to share!
Thank you, Ashley, for this wonderful review of The King’s Rose:
http://ashley-thecompulsivereader.blogspot.com/2009/10/kings-rose.html. Ashley’s review was also posted on teenreadstoo.com: http://www.teensreadtoo.com/KingsRose.html.
A great review from The Book Girl, too:
http://thebookgirlreviews.blogspot.com/2009/09/guest-review-kings-rose-by-alisa-m.html
I have a guest post on the Shady Glade, where I share how much I love to write about BAD GIRLS:
http://theshadyglade.blogspot.com/2009/09/author-guest-post-alisa-libby.html.
Also fellow kudos to JonArno Lawson who has a book hot off the press – and it looks really cool, to boot: http://www.greenboathouse.com/books/index.html#TWT
