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you're invited!!!

Pretty much every book-related thing I do is fun.  But there’s something extra-magical about a book launch...

you're invited!!!
posted on: Mar 15, 2010

“charming and funny”

Chapter 1 First:  I got fired.  For emailing a website with hundreds of pictures of breasts to every single...

“charming and funny”
posted on: Mar 11, 2010

public service announcement

Check out Katherine’s commercial for Writers In The Schools!

public service announcement
posted on: Mar 4, 2010

The Bright Side of Disaster reviews

Reviews from authors, booksellers and critics “Charming. . . Cleverly told and uncommonly appealing.”  ~PEOPLE...

The Bright Side of Disaster reviews
posted on: Feb 28, 2010

“Cleverly told and uncommonly a...

Chapter 1 The end began with a plane crash. Just before midnight on a Tuesday in February. A girl I’d never met...

“Cleverly told and uncommonly appealing.”
posted on: Feb 28, 2010

art for mom 2.0

It’s been a long month of sick kids (and parents) at my house.  And even though I knew there would be many,...

art for mom 2.0
posted on: Feb 23, 2010

defining a movement

My friend Laura asked me to make a video for the Mom 2.0 Summit art show that’s coming up in February. And here...

defining a movement
posted on: Jan 28, 2010

event: mom 2.0 art exhibit opening

Mom 2.0: Defining A Movement Art Exhibit Opening featured artist (for this video) And this...

event: mom 2.0 art exhibit opening
posted on: Jan 10, 2010

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...

my new new novel
posted on: Jan 8, 2010

the girls

I’ve been feeling feisty lately.  The brouhaha over Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten books of 2009 —...

the girls
posted on: Nov 17, 2009

s i s t e r s

I stumbled on this little moment in our old home movies over the weekend and couldn’t believe how sweet it was....

s i s t e r s
posted on: Nov 11, 2009

gorgeousness

Last spring, the amazing Mary Swenson took these photos for me in response to a quote I sent her from Everyone Is...

gorgeousness
posted on: Oct 26, 2009

i love radio

This morning, I did a radio interview with Christopher Gabriel on his program for AM 970 WDAY in Fargo, ND, and it was...

i love radio
posted on: Sep 4, 2009

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...

advance readers' edition
posted on: Aug 12, 2009

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...

you saw it here first
posted on: Aug 3, 2009

life on the D-list

> Just got a message from my publicist at Random House that there’s a section of Kathy Griffin’s Bravo...

life on the D-list
posted on: Jul 30, 2009

writing wednesday: life with kids

Here’s a Writing Wednesday about life with kids.  The question comes up over and over:  How do you do both?...

writing wednesday: life with kids
posted on: Jul 21, 2009

100 things I am grateful for

It’s been that kind of summer.  The kind where it seemed like a good idea to make a list the things I am...

100 things I am grateful for
posted on: Jul 15, 2009

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...

Favorite quotes from Everyone is Beautiful
posted on: Jul 10, 2009

revising a draft

Here’s me, yesterday, revising an early draft of a story.  This is what it looks like early on–lots of...

revising a draft
posted on: Jun 29, 2009
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