Candid Camera Photo of the Day #20

More garden pics: VDB used to have quite a garden, then it was "accidentally" plowed under by the lawn guys. Now just a few things have been replanted. This is delphinium.

Candid Camera Photo of the Day #19

We are talking with Relentless Aaron and Heather Covington in the African American Pavilion at Book Expo yesterday. About to head over to see our audio publisher Brilliance Audio and then of course on to the Simon & Schuster booth.

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VDB's roses are bloomin'!!!

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We were at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest, in Bowling Green, KY with author Philana Marie Boles, http://pmarie.com/pmariedotcom_website_pmb_002.htm

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Lola, our Mardi Gras bear - it's a long story. But her earrings light up too.

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OK--we took the holiday weekend off from posting the Photo of the Day--but we're baaaaaack!


This is us on Halloween--where we went to a party in Oakland given by Turning Pages book club. Our costume choice? We went as each other!

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The crazy vintage lamp that VDB saw in an antique store and just had to have--it has a friend--an ice skater lamp--coming up soon!

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With Korto Momolu from Project Runway in Memphis, just before doing morning TV

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Our bulletin board--a little bit of this and a little bit of that current and historical stuff co existing peacefully. The snapshots of us in the white tops --we're celebrating the publishing deal for Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made!!! Our friend Bob in full Vulcan makeup--way before the new Star Trek movie. And we just love the kissing cows.

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A literary flashback: The Spanish edition of our very first book, Exposures!!! As far as we know there are only two copies left in the whole wide world!

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Sorry no pic yesterday. We were in Charlotte at the 10th Annual For Sisters' Only Convention, didn't get back til after midnight and didn't think to post the pic late on Friday night.

Here's another fashion flashback. Virginia in Essence Magazine--can't really describe the outfit--except to say it was the '80's people!

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Another flashback from our modeling days. Donna for Essence. That's Mario Van Peebles in the lower right hand corner-you can only see a little bit...but it's him!

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Isn't this a gorgeous wedding invitation? So sorry can't be there!

Candid Camera Photo of the Day #7

We are at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest in Bowling Green, with Dana Canedy, New York Times editor and author of A Journal For Jordan, and the famous Jordan himself.


--- Inspired by a journal her fiancé wrote to their infant son while stationed as a sergeant in Iraq, New York Times editor Canedy tenderly recreates the couple's love story and decision to have a baby before he died....Canedy's account of Charles's last visit with his wife and child is heartbreaking. Unflinching and thorough, Canedy offers a sense of shared grief with other families whose loved ones have died in the war." Publishers Weekly

(http://www.amazon.com/Journal-Jordan-Story-Love-Honor/dp/0307395790)

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The Ruby Slippers--actually a card from our buddy Sybil (TJMS) but we like to keep them handy. In case we need a quick getaway just click your heels three times and . . . Oh! This is home?! (At least until this book is finished.) Now where can we go?

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Donna and Elmo, aka Kevin Clash--at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest in Bowling Green. Elmo has the best laugh ever! Have you ever been that tickled?!

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Taken last week. The beautiful flowering plum tree--planted by VDB's neighbor so we'd have something pretty to look at every spring. It worked!!!

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You're getting a two fer today--Fashion Flashback photos from our modeling days.

Donna as a bride for a bridal issue of Essence Magazine in the '80's


Virginia pretending to be a teenager for a Gitano ad in the '80's

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Taj is still hanging tough on Survivor--and hanging with us when we were in Nashville a couple of weeks ago. We yakked and had din din @ The Cheesecake FactoryHung out the next night too--but she still WOULD NOT tell us who wins Survivor! BTW we were standing outside in the rain! Don't we look happy anyway?!

Candid Camera

We have been slackers. No blog postings for a while–and just in case you’re wondering why–we’re back in the writing cave. Our new book, Uptown, is due to our editor on June 1, so our noses are to the grindstone and our twenty fingers to the keyboard.

Last year while we were finishing What Doesn’t Kill You, we serialized Exposures, our first novel, on the blog. It was fun and you seemed to enjoy that, but we don't have any more secret novels hanging out in the desk drawer. We’ve been racking our brains trying to figure out what we could do this time around to let you know we still care, we’re still thinking about you and of course want you to keep coming by and seeing what we have going on.

Soooo we’ve come up with the “Photo of the Day.” They’ll be random pictures from our lives, present and past, our work environment, stuff we see, people we meet–a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Enjoy and be sure to let us know what you think! First pic below... a new one tomorrow!

This is a collage we made when we were writing Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made to remind ourselves to always include the 5 senses. Now it's framed and hangs in our office because sometimes we still need reminding!