The wonderful San Francisco independent The Booksmith recommends No One You Know today in the Top Shelf column of the San Francisco Chronicle. If you’re out of the area and can’t make it to readings, you can purchase signed (and even personalized!) copies of No One You Know by emailing orders@booksmith.com.
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Okay, my computer keyboard can burn up today, I can succumb to a suffocating writer’s block, and I will still have this: One of my absolute favorite musicians, Lloyd Cole, linked to my No One You Know playlist, on which his great song, “Rattlesnakes,” appears. In addition to the playlist, which is included in the [...]
When I’m first piecing together the bones of a book, one of the most important things for me is to find the right rhythm. In the early stages of No One You Know I had a CD in the car, which contained a mix of a number of my favorite instrumental pieces: the soundtrack to [...]
There’s an in-depth review of No One You Know over at Musings of a Bookish Kitty. Here’s an excerpt:
“One of my favorite aspects of the novel was the balance between mathematics and the elements that make a good story. Two aspects that might seem so very different on the surface, and yet share a lot [...]
I first heard about Joshilyn Jackson while doing a book tour down South several years ago. I kept seeing her books and hearing her name everywhere, so before getting on a plane back to San Francisco, I bought a copy of gods in Alabama. It takes a very long time to get from Alabama to [...]
I’m giving away books on Goodreads from 9:30 to 11:00 Pacific time, Wednesday, May 21. All you have to do is show up to my online coffee club, where we’ll be chatting about No One You Know, just out in paperback. Three winners will be randomly selected to receive a signed copy of NO ONE [...]
Not long ago, I was sitting with my son in the loft of his preschool, telling him a story, when he interrupted me to ask, “Where did that story come from?”
“I just thought of it,” I said.
He was not satisfied. “But where did it come from?”
“From my imagination,” I said.
“Where’s your magic nation?”
“In my mind,” [...]
Why should you join me for my goodreads Coffee Club on Wednesday, May 20? Because three participants will receive a free, signed copy of No One You Know.
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Join me on Wednesday, May 20, for coffee and conversation. Put on your favorite brew and log on to Goodreads, where I’ll be discussing my latest novel, [...]
NO ONE YOU KNOW is out in paperback today…just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. The paperback contains great supplementary materials, including a Q&A, reading group guide, and playlist. I’ve been hearing a lot from book groups, who say that this novel about sisterhood and the impact of stories on our lives makes for [...]
The Year of Fog gets a mention today in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Book reviewer Ina Hughes contemplates the nature of images in Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop, now out in paperback from Basic Books. Hughes calls I Am A Strange Loop “a fascinating, lay-friendly book about the workings [...]
