how to make a comfort list
In Get Lucky, the main character makes a “comfort list” of things that are soothing. Here it...
the Lockhart Library
Last week, I drove out to Lockhart, Texas, with my mom for a book event. The library in my new book is based on the...
make your own luck
I’ve just made a new trailer for Get Lucky that tries to feel a little bit like the book. I was super-lucky to...
spoiled goats, fresh cheese: Blue Her...
Over winter break, we went out to the country to visit my childhood friend Christian and his wife Lisa at their farm....
praise for Get Lucky
“[A] thoroughly enjoyable girlish romp.” – Library Journal “Center delivers an original, engaging, and...
free LUCK for everybody
So we had the book launch party for Get Lucky on Saturday. I really wasn’t sure how many people would show up,...
radio is an art
I had such a fun time this morning talking with Christopher Gabriel on his radio program at WDAY in Fargo, North...
book trailer for Get Lucky
Get Lucky is a novel about many different things, but one of them is sisters. I have two sisters,...
HEAR a clip from GET LUCKY
My third novel, Get Lucky, comes out next week!! Here’s a fun, sneak-peek audio clip! Click here to...
reading: Things to Remember not to Fo...
This essay was published in the anthology Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond,...
excerpt: Get Lucky
GET LUCKY: A Novel — Chapter 1 First: I got fired. For emailing a website with hundreds of pictures of...
The Bright Side of Disaster reviews
Reviews from authors, booksellers and critics “Charming. . . Cleverly told and uncommonly appealing.” ~PEOPLE...
Excerpt from The Bright Side of Disas...
Chapter 1 The end began with a plane crash. Just before midnight on a Tuesday in February. A girl I’d never met...
my new new novel
About five minutes ago, I sent the first three chapters of my new novel to my editor at Random House. It...
gorgeousness
Last spring, the amazing Mary Swenson took these photos for me in response to a quote I sent her from Everyone Is...
advance readers' edition
The AREs for Get Lucky are all printed up — and just arrived in the mail at my house. It’s still a...
you saw it here first
My third novel, Get Lucky–on sale April 2010–now has a cover! Now we just need to get it together with the...
Favorite quotes from Everyone is Beau...
A reporter asked me last week to put together some of my favorite quotes from Everyone Is Beautiful for a story...
we all carry our mothers inside us
Here’s the second video trailer for the essay “Things to Remember Not to Forget” in Andrea...
you really can't have everything
Here is the first in a series of 3 videos I am making that feature excerpts from my essay “Things to Remember...
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