The cover for my new book THE ROM-COMMERS just dropped, and it’s awesome!
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So beyond thrilled to share the cover for my upcoming book, How to Walk Away. I love everything about it. The font! The red! The flowers! Actually, our front door is red, and I painted flowers all over it last spring. So this basically could be our front door. I’m a total cover junkie. I’ve […]
In Get Lucky, the main character makes a “comfort list” of things that are soothing. Here it is: “Things that are comforting: Tea. Warm water on your skin. Thick socks. Humming. Laughter. Fireplaces. Having someone arrange your fruit in a smiley face. Having someone refuse to examine your imaginary tumors. Watching old movies with Mackie.” […]
So we had the book launch party for Get Lucky on Saturday. I really wasn’t sure how many people would show up, but I knew it would be a fun time. Especially since I’d be reading the first chapter of the book, which is pretty feisty. The opening paragraph is all about how the main […]
Plenty of surreal things have happened in my life. But I’m not sure I’ve ever quite felt anything like it feels to look at this: It’s my first novel, The Bright Side of Disaster, in Czech. It is indescribably bizarre to flip through a book that YOU wrote–and not be able to read a word. […]
My friend Laura asked me to make a video for the Mom 2.0 Summit art show. And here it is! Many thanks to Shutter Sisters for allowing me to use photos from the site. And many thanks to the amazing photographers: Karen Walrond, Jenny Lawson, Tracey Clark, Sarah Ji, Kristin Zecchinelli, Irene Nam, and Meredith […]
Yesterday, after 11 days home with a sick 4-year-old, I went to the school I went to for Kindergarten through 12th grade to give a chapel talk. It’s book fair week at my old school, and this year, I am the featured author. They asked me to address the question “Why read books?” And I […]
I try not to forget to count my blessings. And one of them–two years in a row, now–has been getting to go out to the Texas Hill Country to stay in the gorgeous country house of one of my mom’s dear friends. I got to go last year when I was finishing up my […]
Here’s a Writing Wednesday about life with kids. The question comes up over and over: How do you do both? How do you get it all done as a mother and a writer? And almost every mother with little kids I know struggles with some version of this question. How do you get it all […]
Here’s me, yesterday, revising an early draft of a story. This is what it looks like early on–lots of writing all over the page: arrows, carrots, scribbles. Then I go back and type in what I’ve written. Then I print it out and write all over the typed pages again, over and over until it […]