Rachel Simon's Blog

Starting today, you can download a brand new audio recording of my first big hit, the 1990 short story, “Little Nightmares, Little Dreams.” “Little Nightmares, Little Dreams” is about an elderly couple who enter the unknown when they try to dream the same dream. Also adapted for NPR and the Lifetime Channel, “Little Nightmares, Little [...]

Hope you enjoy this holiday e-card. I identify the photos and music below. May your own holiday be filled with hugs. This photo collage created with Smilebox You are seeing: - 3 photos from our vacation to Scotland this summer – 2 of us on the Isle of Skye and 1 of Hal at the [...]

This blog is on hiatus while Rachel is busy researching and writing new projects. Feel free to browse through the archives!

Have you been wondering what’s happened since I last posted here in late May? Here’s the answer, in the form of a brief slide show inside this holiday e-card. It comes from my husband Hal and me. Make a digital greeting card

My friends are always saying, “Gee, I thought authors wrote their book, the publisher put it out, and that was it. I never guessed it would go on after that.” It sure does, at least for me, since I do professional speaking about the material in my books. For me, the “after that” phase goes [...]

I have not meant to neglect my blog. For many months – since I last posted this winter – I have thought of it every day. But I have been traveling hither and yon, first for the remainder of my book tour, then for myriad speaking engagements. Between Feb. 10 and May 25, I will [...]

Here is the menu of my time in Miami, Stop #5 on my book tour for The Story of Beautiful Girl. Starters An Assortment of Wraps After flying from Austin (Stop #4) and landing in Miami (Stop #5), you quickly come across two newsstands where your novel, The Story of Beautiful Girl, is on display. [...]

I hadn't been there before, but I thought I knew what there was to know about Austin: music university state capitol warm weather liberal atmosphere But there was much I hadn't known, as I discovered when I was in town on Feb. 17-19, during my book tour for The Story of Beautiful Girl (Stop #4). [...]

Here are forty rules I've learned about being on book tour, most of which I realized while in Wichita, Book Tour Stop #3: 1. Pack only what you need because… 2. The more you have, the longer it takes to repack. And since you repack every day… 3. Decide at Stop #2 that you have [...]

I loved the Chicago leg of my book tour! My media escort, Don, gave me the morning to myself. This gave me the opportunity to have a full night's sleep, something I will crave as the book tour continues and I'll be doing bookstore events until 9 or 10 at night, then needing to get [...]