It is Blog Hop Friday! A day for bouncing round the blogosphere like reading rabbits on rollerblades. It is always a lovely day--meeting new people who love to read and write and review and connect. Thank you to the marvelous Jennifer at crazy-for-books.com for organizing this wonderful rabbit roller derby.
In other news I did it. I sent the photos to my editor. Well, I say I when really I just sat there and my friends Naomi and Matt did it. Really good friends who help with all their helping hearts are just wonderful aren't they? Precious and rare and so much part of the infrastructure of happiness. I am currently on the lookout for a lovely present to give Naomi so if you have any ideas please tell me! Matt helped me on his birthday no less so he gets presents and cake. Actually, everyone gets cake. Friday feels like a day for sunshine, a good book just begun, the ocean, bleached out salty hair, sandy feet, and then a thick slab of yellow layer cake with pink icing. Cake it is!
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ReplyDeletei am actually trying to put it up now but struggling!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo!
ReplyDeletethank you! is the hair in my face ok though? it was so windy!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great! Very natural - the hair in the face makes it that way!
ReplyDeleteoh good! thank you!
ReplyDeletekate by the way i have been trying to leave comments on your marvelous blog and the word verification won't let me! or it has been letting me and you are going to find seventy six copies of my comment--either way i am sorry!
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful! I love all the blue. You're lovely.
ReplyDeleteI really love the photo! You look comfortable and relaxed. I think a reader would want to get to know the person in the photo, and maybe open/buy the book...
ReplyDeletecaroline starr rose, thank you! it is an old tumbledown church down in hanalei that i have always loved. so glad you like it!
ReplyDeletebibliophiliac, that is so wonderful of you to say that! thank you! thank you!
Great picture. Bet it would look great on your book. =)
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting my blog and leaving your lovely comments. Congratulations on the success of your first novel and I am looking forward to its upcoming release.
ReplyDeleteI am one of your new followers. Have a wonderful weekend!
Wonderful photo, Priya! You look great and very natural :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful picture! Everything is spot on! I love the composition, the colours are amazing!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the first novel! :) That's so exciting!
I love the photo it really shows you and your personality. I swear some author photo's look like bad high school picture day pictures. But your pic really breathes life, fun, and kindness. Oh and Congrats on your first novel I look forward to hearing all about you soon to be success!!
ReplyDeletejo, thank you! so glad you stopped by!
ReplyDeletestephanie, your blog was wonderful! so glad i found it!
kals and beth and rheanna, so happy you like it! i was so worried about it! i feel really good about it now!
I love that photo! Where was it taken? I'm so excited to follow your author journey and so glad I found your blog. I've placed it on my sidebar so I can keep up with your progress easily. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo, very natural.
ReplyDeletejune, that is lovely! thank you! i have your link on mine too!
ReplyDeletelindy lou mac, oh good. i am so glad you like it.
Lovely photo!
ReplyDeleteYour Friday plans sound wonderful - hope that you were able to enjoy everything from the sunshine through the yellow cake.
Loved the photos.
ReplyDeleteGood friends are worth their weight in gold.
Hello Priya, and thank you for stopping by. It's a pleasure to meet you! I've only had the chance to browse through your most recent posts, but I can tell it's going to be a lot of fun following you! And I love everything about the photo. Good choice!
ReplyDeleteAww, what a lovely photo! Macarons from Laduree are the best present ever...not really helpful where you are I guess? Sorry ;-) So great when you have good friends. Love from (cold) London x
ReplyDeletekristi, friday was heaven and although there wasn't actually yellow cake--yellow cake thin on the ground here--there was a tremendous chocolate chip cookie! so glad you stopped by!
ReplyDeletepetty witter, i am so glad you like it! good friends really are aren't they.
lady q, thank you! i am so happy you found me! and it is lovely to know you will be back! thank you for saying that about the photo. i was so nervous to put it up there and it has had such a wonderful response. i am delighted.
mademoiselle poirot, they really are delicious, and so ppretty. the colours are just as scrumtious as the macaroon. i have to do research in paris for my next book--a chunk of it happened in paris after wwi so hopefully macaroons soon! i heard it was cold! it is that i can't wear the sundress i really want to wear because it is just too cold and i am annoyed season--ick. xx
LOVE the pic! You look gorgeous dahling. Can't wait to see it on the cover copy!
ReplyDeleteErm, Priya, if I looked anything like this I would very happily submit to having my photograph taken any time, anywhere - I can't believe you were dreading it, you daft girl. You're absolutely gorgeous!
ReplyDeletelisa and laura, thank you! am getting to see the cover next week and ummm... did not really think about that before i sat in front of a bright green building for the photo.
ReplyDeletedoctordi, you are so, so sweet. thank you! i was dreading it. and it showed in the photos! we got one out of 95 photos! the rest i'm closing my eyes or sneezing or twitching or all sorts of other really attractive things!