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Kristin Billerbeck
Silicon Valley
Author of Chick Lit & Women's Fiction Wife of One, Mother of Four
Interests: music, literature, learning, current events, writing, soccer, books, psychology, politics, culture, pop culture, publishing, great shoes, everything! fashion, other people's point of view
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Well I think you’re essential!! I’m glad you’re using the time well! My house is a bit of a mess as I finish this book and my daughter had a hair salon here this weekend.
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Commented 6 days ago on #RoomAtTheTop cover reveal coming soon! #Novel #ChickLit #WomensFiction at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#RoomAtTheTop cover reveal coming soon! #Novel #ChickLit #WomensFiction
I have six beautiful choices for my new cover. Colleen Coble hooked me up with my old cover designer from Harper Collins Christian, so I'm pretty stoked. As excited as one can be when confined to the house without espresso. I'm an introvert and I like being home, but I have to say, this just suck...
Oh that’s a good use of time!
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Commented 7 days ago on #RoomAtTheTop cover reveal coming soon! #Novel #ChickLit #WomensFiction at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#RoomAtTheTop cover reveal coming soon! #Novel #ChickLit #WomensFiction
I have six beautiful choices for my new cover. Colleen Coble hooked me up with my old cover designer from Harper Collins Christian, so I'm pretty stoked. As excited as one can be when confined to the house without espresso. I'm an introvert and I like being home, but I have to say, this just suck...
#RoomAtTheTop cover reveal coming soon! #Novel #ChickLit #WomensFiction
Posted Mar 28, 2020 at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
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Praying for your quick recovery Barb, it will be good to watch at home. I did see "Love and Friendship" -- I made one of my sons go with me for free popcorn. LOL I doubt I'd get away with that again. Bill Nighy was a little strange in that role, but I love him. "Sense and Sensibility" was on this weekend and wow, that's such a great version with Emma Thompson. She deserved her Oscar for writing.
Commented Mar 16, 2020 on Emma's star: Miranda Hart at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
Emma's star: Miranda Hart
Okay, it's no secret that I'm not an Emma fan. This version even less so than normal. In the book, I find Emma less than brilliant. Essentially, she's not winning any Nobel Prizes for physics. But in this version, she comes off as a queen bee mean girl who is smart enough to know better. Austen k...
I’m glad to hear it. That is definitely a warm fuzzy. That’s all that matters.
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Commented Mar 13, 2020 on Emma's star: Miranda Hart at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
Emma's star: Miranda Hart
Okay, it's no secret that I'm not an Emma fan. This version even less so than normal. In the book, I find Emma less than brilliant. Essentially, she's not winning any Nobel Prizes for physics. But in this version, she comes off as a queen bee mean girl who is smart enough to know better. Austen k...
My friend Di loved the 2005 version. I won't watch it again. I'm not a Kiera fan sadly and I don't like how they took words from another Austen book and tacked it on the end, but whatever. I'm glad for any version that makes people happy. I loved the 1981 version with David Rintoul so it took me a long time to watch the one with Colin Firth in it, but now it's my favorite, naturally. I didn't watch it for years because I thought Firth was too light to play Darcy, but he won me over. And over.
I'm always up for any Austen adaptation to be honest, but Emma is not a book I enjoyed either so the movie just reminded me of that. I think "Clueless" is such a good version because they make her so dingy and likable and that's how I read the book too. But I still don't like her as a character and I saw no reason Knightley would love her, but that's the magic of movies. : )
He's going to be in a new movie that there was a preview for. A new version of The Secret Garden and it looks gorgeous!
Commented Mar 12, 2020 on Emma's star: Miranda Hart at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
Emma's star: Miranda Hart
Okay, it's no secret that I'm not an Emma fan. This version even less so than normal. In the book, I find Emma less than brilliant. Essentially, she's not winning any Nobel Prizes for physics. But in this version, she comes off as a queen bee mean girl who is smart enough to know better. Austen k...
LOL wise choice on this Emma. I agree on the Hallmark movies. They don’t do some author’s work justice. They’re like the Thorn Birds. Different story from the book but entertaining if you don’t know otherwise.
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Commented Mar 11, 2020 on Emma's star: Miranda Hart at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
Emma's star: Miranda Hart
Okay, it's no secret that I'm not an Emma fan. This version even less so than normal. In the book, I find Emma less than brilliant. Essentially, she's not winning any Nobel Prizes for physics. But in this version, she comes off as a queen bee mean girl who is smart enough to know better. Austen k...
Emma's star: Miranda Hart
Posted Mar 10, 2020 at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
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I’m going to see Emma Tuesday. I’ll probably watch Little Women at home. I love a costume drama.
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Commented Mar 6, 2020 on The New #Emma at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
The New #Emma
Emma is my least favorite of all Jane Austen's novels. Yes, I like it less than Northanger Abbey. Emma as a character just annoys me. But I will still go see it. I hope artsy movies play here in Phoenix. Now that I'm out of Silicon Valley, I'm a little worried about my arthouse films. The supp...
No. I could use a quick, fun read! Thanks.
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Commented Feb 26, 2020 on #TheDutchHouse by Ann Patchett at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#TheDutchHouse by Ann Patchett
I bought this book because Tom Hanks reads the Audible version and I wanted to hear my beloved "Toy Story" favorite read a book. But I'm not an audible lover. I want to see the words. Slowly devour them and read them again when I love a sentence, so I needed to read it first. Tom had to wait....
Hahaha we are soul sisters!! Little Women is not for me.
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Commented Feb 23, 2020 on The New #Emma at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
The New #Emma
Emma is my least favorite of all Jane Austen's novels. Yes, I like it less than Northanger Abbey. Emma as a character just annoys me. But I will still go see it. I hope artsy movies play here in Phoenix. Now that I'm out of Silicon Valley, I'm a little worried about my arthouse films. The supp...
Wonderful news!
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Commented Feb 22, 2020 on The New #Emma at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
The New #Emma
Emma is my least favorite of all Jane Austen's novels. Yes, I like it less than Northanger Abbey. Emma as a character just annoys me. But I will still go see it. I hope artsy movies play here in Phoenix. Now that I'm out of Silicon Valley, I'm a little worried about my arthouse films. The supp...
I like they Jonny Miller version!
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Commented Feb 22, 2020 on The New #Emma at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
The New #Emma
Emma is my least favorite of all Jane Austen's novels. Yes, I like it less than Northanger Abbey. Emma as a character just annoys me. But I will still go see it. I hope artsy movies play here in Phoenix. Now that I'm out of Silicon Valley, I'm a little worried about my arthouse films. The supp...
Oh that sounds good. Sometimes we have to work for our reads.
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Commented Feb 22, 2020 on #TheDutchHouse by Ann Patchett at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#TheDutchHouse by Ann Patchett
I bought this book because Tom Hanks reads the Audible version and I wanted to hear my beloved "Toy Story" favorite read a book. But I'm not an audible lover. I want to see the words. Slowly devour them and read them again when I love a sentence, so I needed to read it first. Tom had to wait....
That sounds like my kind of show! I'm very jumpy right now. I need to take a break from this computer. LOL
Commented Feb 21, 2020 on The New #Emma at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
The New #Emma
Emma is my least favorite of all Jane Austen's novels. Yes, I like it less than Northanger Abbey. Emma as a character just annoys me. But I will still go see it. I hope artsy movies play here in Phoenix. Now that I'm out of Silicon Valley, I'm a little worried about my arthouse films. The supp...
The New #Emma
Emma is my least favorite of all Jane Austen's novels. Yes, I like it less than Northanger Abbey. Emma as a character just annoys me. But I will still go see it. I hope artsy movies play here in Phoenix.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2020 at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
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#TheDutchHouse by Ann Patchett
Posted Feb 18, 2020 at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
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Sanditon isn't great, but it's better than nothing. LOL
Commented Jan 23, 2020 on #TheBachelor Peter & #SanditonPBS at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#TheBachelor Peter & #SanditonPBS
Without my daughter and our weekly cake date, The Bachelor doesn't hold the same thrill for me, but I watch it still because we discuss it and I want to be educated. The same reason I will probably watch "The Mandalorian." My son is a huge "Guardians of the Galaxy" fan and he told me he'd use bab...
I'm not saying. I rarely mention names here. Think my friends are entitled to privacy. I don't really care about that. I'm an open book. LOL
Commented Jan 23, 2020 on ADD & Self-publishing #Finishthebook at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
ADD & Self-publishing #Finishthebook
I've been saying I'm going to start self-publishing for...awhile now. The trouble is, without a contract, I don't have the outside push to finish a book. I know how to finish a book. I have finished 40 books and had them all published. But now? Now I must act alone and it requires organization, w...
That is hysterical!
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Commented Jan 23, 2020 on What's your quirk? at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
What's your quirk?
I believe I have a few. One, I dance in grocery stores -- I mean, if you feel the music, you feel the music, am I right? My son taped me dancing in the grocery store and posted it to Snapchat with the caption, "Italian moms be like..." My son sent me this yesterday. This is another one of my q...
Just need to have my eyesight and SIT in the chair more.
Commented Jan 21, 2020 on #WentworthHeiress is the winner! at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#WentworthHeiress is the winner!
Okay, my friend and bestselling author wants me to finish the Wentworth Heiress book first. She loved all of them, but this one is nearly 40k words in and it's ready to finish. So that's what's next for me. Now to find the perfect cover...
Like in Misery? LOL
Commented Jan 21, 2020 on #WentworthHeiress is the winner! at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#WentworthHeiress is the winner!
Okay, my friend and bestselling author wants me to finish the Wentworth Heiress book first. She loved all of them, but this one is nearly 40k words in and it's ready to finish. So that's what's next for me. Now to find the perfect cover...
She thinks it's my best book yet. Let's hope she's right!
Commented Jan 21, 2020 on #WentworthHeiress is the winner! at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
#WentworthHeiress is the winner!
Okay, my friend and bestselling author wants me to finish the Wentworth Heiress book first. She loved all of them, but this one is nearly 40k words in and it's ready to finish. So that's what's next for me. Now to find the perfect cover...
#WentworthHeiress is the winner!
Okay, my friend and bestselling author wants me to finish the Wentworth Heiress book first. She loved all of them, but this one is nearly 40k words in and it's ready to finish. So that's what's next for me. Now... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2020 at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
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Thanks for the encouragement. It has been a rough year, but I am getting acclimated and I'm ready to work. I'm trying not to look backwards. That gets me nowhere, but my old boss is needing help so I'm sad I'm not there to help her. But I am here to write, so it's time!
Commented Jan 20, 2020 on ADD & Self-publishing #Finishthebook at Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck
ADD & Self-publishing #Finishthebook
I've been saying I'm going to start self-publishing for...awhile now. The trouble is, without a contract, I don't have the outside push to finish a book. I know how to finish a book. I have finished 40 books and had them all published. But now? Now I must act alone and it requires organization, w...
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