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“Sweet, smart,...
Chapter 1 My husband had been dead for three years before I started trying to contact him. By then, our house was long-sold, his suits...
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“charming and ...
Chapter 1 First: I got fired. For emailing a website with hundreds of pictures of breasts to every single person in our company. Even the...
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“Cleverly told...
Chapter 1 The end began with a plane crash. Just before midnight on a Tuesday in February. A girl I’d never met or even heard of died, along...
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“There wasn’t a dull spot in this book–just a really great story about finding home and...
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What You Know Now
At the launch for The Lost Husband, I read a short scene from the book, and then I also read an essay that I...
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QUOTES
Here are some Katherine Center quotes–gathered from around the web. Feel free to add other favorites...
my ikea hack
So I went to Ikea the other day. And I bought this clock. I’d been looking online for something cheery for our...
before & after
Our kitchen fell apart last fall. At Thanksgiving, actually. There was a leak under the floor that rotted out the...
FIRST first novel
Here’s Katherine telling the quick story of how she wrote her first...
perfection protest!
I’m not blogging much because I am on fire writing a new book. I’d write for 10 hours a day right now,...
popcorn art
posted on: Jul 8, 2010
Summer is really not my season. Or I suppose I should say, Texas summer is not my season. Or climate. If we lived in Nova Scotia, I might well...
secret mission: Mondo Beyondo
posted on: Jul 7, 2010
I am lucky in a thousand ways this summer. And one of them is that I get to help host a Secret Mission for the Dream Lab at Mondo...
unplugged
posted on: May 31, 2010
I’m taking the month off from the Web. It’s a radical thing to do, but there it is. I’ve got a novel to write–one that is...
the barbecue capital of Texas
posted on: Apr 30, 2010
I kind of lean in a vegetarian direction. But when you go to the Bar-B-Q capital of Texas, you just HAVE to be a carnivore. And last week, when my...
How NOT To Write: passive constructions
posted on: Apr 26, 2010
Why are they called “constructions”? Because a sentence is something you build, right? You assemble it with words. And those...
all my exes live in Marfa
posted on: Apr 23, 2010
Did I say “all”? I actually meant “none.” But an old friend of one of my exes — who apparently bought his car —...
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