QUOTES

Here are some Katherine Center quotes gathered from around the web.         I like to write about people who are real and likeable.  I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability […]

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gorgeousness

Last spring, the amazing Mary Swenson took these photos for me in response to a quote I sent her from Everyone Is Beautiful.  She broke the quote down by sentences, and took a photo for each one.  Then we ran the photos in sequence and made a video.  But the photos are so amazing, they […]

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Favorite quotes from Everyone is Beautiful

A reporter asked me last week to put together some of my favorite quotes from Everyone Is Beautiful for a story she’s doing.  And so I did.  I’ve been writing new stuff, and blogging, and goofing off with my kids this summer–and it had been a while since I’d spent any time with Everyone Is […]

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Everyone is Beautiful – video excerpt

Just got a Flip video camera, and this video documents the first time I ever used it!  This is me, after a reading, pretty late at night, at my desk.  I’d intended to read an entire chapter–the chapter I’d read just a few hours earlier at a lovely and breezy Inprint Houston event, but the […]

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the awesomest thing ever, ever, ever

My friend Mary Swenson and I made a trailer for Everyone Is Beautiful.  I contributed the idea and the text (it’s from the book), and she contributed the photography and the design and the fabulousness. And here it is!!!  Hope you love it as much as I do. [BlueTube]jPwTrTaZRm0[/BlueTube] Thanks also to Laurie Smithwick for […]

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first week roundup!

Emails and responses are starting to roll in for Everyone Is Beautiful, and I thought it would be fun to share some of the things people are saying: I just read Everyone Is Beautiful and it was such pure joy!  I was so tired and ready for a nap but picked it up to read […]

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great review from BookBitch!

Becky LeJeune just gave Everyone Is Beautiful a great review at BookBitch! Here’s an excerpt: “Center has a great voice and Lanie is a charming leading lady. This touching and hilarious read will really open your eyes to what truly makes a person happy, what truly makes a person beautiful in the eyes of another.”

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fantastic review from a college professor!

An Ohio college professor just gave Everyone Is Beautiful a great review on her blog, calling it a “feel-good book for oldyweds.” The review starts out this way: “I need a feel-good book in February, and this one did the job starting with the title: Everyone Is Beautiful. As a bonus, the cover has a […]

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back to me…

A local Houston paper called The Examiner ran a profile of me today.  It’s so fun to see things starting to rev up for the release of Everyone Is Beautiful (only 2 weeks to go!).  Here’s how writer Melissa Buron describes the new book (review to come later): “Everyone is Beautiful follows the trials and […]

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