Love times 30

oh love…feeling it so strongly right now, along with deep gratitude. look what Andrea Cirillo, my forever literary agent and great friend, made to celebrate LITTLE NIGHT–my 30th novel. this collage contains public book stuff and private friend stuff…book jackets, stars from my tv productions, some of the funnier quotes from my novels (“we rode six breasts abreast…”), the cats, our favorite literary lunch hangout–the The Half King, joan stein, motherhood out loud, hallmark hall of fame, lifetime, the literary guild, soundhound, good housekeeping, and so much more…and she wrote: “huge congratulations on a wild, honest, excellent, crowd-pleasing, soul-searching, mind-boggling, record-making, tender, brainy, brave & true journey to book #30!” THANK YOU ANDREA! and everyone at the Jane Rotrosen Agency (all of whom signed the card), and my publishers, and all my wonderful readers.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1304502809 P.l. Forgash

    Wow!  What a beautiful, touching thing to put together! Thank you for sharing with us Luanne :)   <3 !! xoxo

    • Luanne

      hi pam,
      i am very lucky to know andrea.  she is so important to me in so many ways.  i’ll treasure this collage forever.  love to you and the owls!

  • Dee

    That’s the best keep sake ever, I love it too.
     Isn’t it lovely to have such thoughtful, wonderful friends?
    “Aye” I agree, as mine are dear too like that.One’s online I’ve never met? and one’s here in a small net.

    Smiles warmly~

    Love from BC~

    • Luanne

      thank you, dee…love to you in BC!

  • Karen

    Dear Luann. HELEN HUBBARD?   I must be being “directed” to contact you.  A few days ago I saw you on TV talking about your latest book.  I am a voracious reader, but not generally of fiction. Today, I was doing a Google search and something led me to type my college voice teacher’s name, Helen M. Hubbard….something that popped up caught my eye….”no woods.”  …..hm, I immediately thought, Point o’ Woods, and read what I found there.  I was astounded by what I read.  I was completely unaware of the connection between my beloved teacher and your book(s).  Helen was the reason I went to Hartt, rather than any other conservatory,  when I was 18.  She was my voice teacher for as long as I took voice lessons there.  In summer, I used to leave my house in Beverly, MA in the morning , have my voice lesson at the cottage and be jumping into the ocean off the rocks behind her house by noon, often with her friends from Hartford who had come for the weekend.  I made a custom-made boat bag for “Miss Hubbard” in 1975, with a needle work insert of red flowers and her initials in the corner…..she loved it and used it a lot; perhaps you saw it?   Lots more to tell but don’t want to post.  Contact me if you wish.  Thank you for  immortalizing someone, and someplace, very, very dear to me.  Those memories will never fade. 

    • Luanne

      hi karen,
      what wonderful memories of helen!  i probably heard you singing across the street…  i absolutely remember the bag you made her–she loved it.  sometimes we would all go out to lunch at “the gull” in essex or the bee and thistle in old lyme, and she carried with her.  such inimitable style!  those caftans…  she was part of our family, and we loved her and miss her a lot.  thank you for writing me.  i love thinking of you jumping into the ocean off the rocks by her cottage…