Dee Davis

Dee Davis

During her formative years, Dee Davis spent half of her time dreaming of imaginary worlds and the other half of her time telling her friends the stories.  Which led to a permanent seat next to various elementary school teachers’ desks.  When she discovered that her stories could also be committed to paper, it saved a lot of time and basically kept her out of trouble.

Despite life’s ups and downs, basic nature changes very little.  And today, Dee still spends quite a bit of time talking and she has missed more than one exit driving while dreaming up stories.  One day with a rather large birthday looming, she decided that just talking about writing a romance was never going to get the job done. So she set out to write a novel. Her highly acclaimed first novel was published in July 2000, and she’s never looked back.   To date, she’s the award winning author of eighteen novels, and is constantly pinching herself to make sure all of this is really happening.

In her everyday life, which rarely includes bon-bons or tiaras, Dee is married to her real life hero (which, honest to God, she’d begun to believe was never going to show up).  The marriage has produced twenty years of adventure and the most wonderful daughter in the world.  Recently when facing ANOTHER big birthday (sigh) she learned that she was actually an adopted whine sister, which made total sense when one considers her adoration for wine.  Originally from the southwest, Dee and her family live in Manhattan—a kingdom all unto itself—where she continues to write and spend time with her husband, daughter, cat and Cardigan Welsh corgi.

Astrological sign: Aquarius; loyal, intellectual, and (according to her brother) spacey.

Favorite Leading Man: Clive Owen and/or Sean Connery

Favorite Comfort Food: Mac and Cheese

Check out more about Dee and her books at www.deedavis.com

Recent posts by Dee Davis:

Fashion Friday: It’s all in the Shoe!

by Dee Davis

I grew up with a mother who loved shoes.  All her boxes were lovingly stacked in the closet and each time she’d pull one out I’d hold my breath waiting to see the unveiled glory of her day’s choice.   She has a size 6 triple A foot so quite honestly all shoes look marvelous on [...]

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USA! USA!

by Dee Davis

This is it.  The end of two weeks of total immersion into the world of winter sports.  A time when Americans collectively gathered around their TV’s (and computers and smart phones) to watch the best of the best compete for quite honestly the worlds weirdest looking gold medal.   And today after the final buzzer in [...]

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Good Buys, Good Books: It’s all in the Ad or is It?

by Dee Davis

There’s nothing that promotes Good Buys quite like an advertisement.  And thanks to the Super Bowl, I’ve been thinking about television commercials lately.  (my fav this year was a tie between the Snicker’s commercial with Betty White and the Google Ad about the guy in Paris.) Which led me to thoughts about some of the [...]

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Pop Culture Monday: Lost in Austen

by Dee Davis

My daughter is doing a paper on Jane Austen.  And in the process we’ve been rereading and revisiting the books and various movie versions of four of Austen’s six books.  Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and Emma.  I can’t tell you how hard it was for me to read, watch, discuss and even [...]

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Set Up In Soho

by Dee Davis
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When Andrea Sevalas’ long time boyfriend announces he’s seeing someone else, Andi’s thrown for a loop—well, actually, down a cellar. Head throbbing and nose out of joint, she’s rescued by one of New York’s finest – attorney’s that is. Ethan McCay — the upper east side heir to the kingdom of Manhattan. [...]

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Question of the Week: Which Realty Show is Your Secret Dream?

by Dee Davis

Okay, we’ve all admitted which reality shows are our secret pleasure.  And we talked about how often we tune in and/or tune out.  But what we haven’t admitted is which one we secretly wish we were starring in.
Me, I’ll confess.  I’d kill to have been young enough to have tried out for American Idol.  I have [...]

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Fashion Friday: Everything Old is New Again

by Dee Davis

 

When circular skirts came back in fashion in the mid-seventies, I remember my mom refusing to wear them.  Stating emphatically that “she’d been there, done that.”  I didn’t understand at the time but now that we’re seeing they wedges and gypsy clothing of the seventies again, I’m starting to get it.   Fashion may swing around [...]

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Good Buys, Good Books: What Happens in London

by Dee Davis

I am a sucker for a good book.  And more particularly a good author.  So when I find the latter, especially with a backlist, I’m in seventh heaven.   Most recently I’ve been glomming Julia Quinn.  Always a little behind the rest of the crowd, I’ve come to Quinn’s books a bit late.  I started with [...]

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Pop Culture Monday: 3D Ad Nauseum

by Dee Davis

Let me start on a positive note.  I am so excited about the upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie.   What’s not to love?  Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman  (they had me at Johnny Depp).   Not to mention the fact that Louis Carroll’s Alice books are two of my absolute favorites from [...]

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Question of the Week: What is your favorite room in the house?

by Dee Davis

Kind of a crazy question I suppose, but I was reading an article in the NY times about Alabama baking, of all things, when suddenly something the article said made me think of my grandmother’s kitchen.  With one sentence (involving pound cake) I was there.  I could see it, smell it, and was overwhelmed with [...]

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Good Buy Tuesdays: It Slices and Dices!

by Dee Davis
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Okay, so if you haven’t already figured it out about me—I’m a foodie.  Andi, the heroine of Set-Up in SoHo was inspired in part because of my love for cooking.  And since it’s “Good buy Tuesday”—which for some reason sounds like it ought to be the title of a Beatles song—I decided to interpret the category to [...]

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Contest Winner!

by Dee Davis
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Called in the elves to evaluate who has been naughty and who has been nice (or more specifically, who commented on my blogging day) and then a name was drawn from the infamous Yankees cap–and voila–a winner!  Congratulations Jerrica–you’ve won an autographed copy of Set-Up in Soho!   Happy Holidays!
 

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Grab Some Eggnog and Fire Up the DVD Player

by Dee Davis
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I am a visual person.  I have loved watching movies since I was a little girl. And with the advent of the holiday season I find myself surrounded with some of my all time favorite films.  I’ll admit it, I’m a Christmas movie junkie.   I actually own nineteen (I just counted).  And thanks to the [...]

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Question of the Week: It’s all in the Words

by Dee Davis
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People are always asking me for my favorite quote.  So I thought I’d share mine and then hopefully, you guys will share yours.
My all time favorite is from Antoine de Saint- Exupéry’s Little Prince.  “One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed…” 
 For me, the fox’s words suggest that everything in [...]

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