you're invited!!!
Pretty much every book-related thing I do is fun. But there’s something extra-magical about a book launch...
“charming and funny”
Chapter 1 First: I got fired. For emailing a website with hundreds of pictures of breasts to every single...
public service announcement
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The Bright Side of Disaster reviews
Reviews from authors, booksellers and critics “Charming. . . Cleverly told and uncommonly appealing.” ~PEOPLE...
“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...
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,...
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...
event: mom 2.0 art exhibit opening
Mom 2.0: Defining A Movement Art Exhibit Opening featured artist (for this video) And this...
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...
the girls
I’ve been feeling feisty lately. The brouhaha over Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten books of 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....
gorgeousness
Last spring, the amazing Mary Swenson took these photos for me in response to a quote I sent her from Everyone Is...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
revising a draft
Here’s me, yesterday, revising an early draft of a story. This is what it looks like early on–lots of...
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